[Gllug] Fastest computer in the world - runs Linux

[j.roberts]

On 20/06/2011 13:29, Andrew Back wrote:

> ... IIRC, one
> has 16 Transputers in it, and the other a smaller number but some
> i960s and a Sparcstation 1+ FEP as well. I occasionally try to track
> down Meiko software for them... Even asked David May—architect of the
> Transputer and author of Occam—but not luck. Sad to think that fairly
> significant technology from not that long ago may now be lost forever.

Funny just how much the Transputer designers got right, no?

Another victory for UK.Gov.foresight.not <sigh>

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