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4 unusual facts about transputer


HeliOS

It was most commonly used on various Transputer systems, but also supported other architectures.

In 1986, King left MetaComCo to found Perihelion Software, and began development of a parallel operating system, initially targeted at the INMOS Transputer series of processors.

Transputer

The HETE-2 spacecraft currently uses 4× T805 transputers and 8× DSP56001 yielding about 100 MIPS of performance.

Myriade, a European Miniaturized satellite platform developed by Astrium Satellites and CNES, is based on the T805 and in production till about 2015.


INMOS G364 framebuffer

The G364 framebuffer was a line of graphics adapters using the SGS Thomson INMOS G364 chipset, produced by INMOS (known for their transputer and eventually acquired by SGS Thomson and incorporated into STMicroelectronics) in the early 1990s.


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