Remember to stay sharp

[ThomasSoerensen]

This sounds some of us might need to keep educating ourselves

new way of programming

[Moscow Mule]

This sounds some of us might need to keep educating ourselves

new way of programming

I'll be ok for now - by the time they put 1000+ cores in an iSeries, I think I'll be in stasis, waiting for a long term cure for a disease that hasn't been discovered yet...

[DimPrawn]

.NET can cope with anything.

HTH

[NickFitz]

Time to brush up my occam skills

[TimberWolf]

Which processor assumes overall control?

[VectraMan]

Time to brush up my occam skills

Did that at university, what with Kent University being quite up on those new-fangled transputers that were going to revolutionise computing. In 1990.

[DimPrawn]

Which processor assumes overall control?

It don't work like that.

[NickFitz]

Did that at university, what with Kent University being quite up on those new-fangled transputers that were going to revolutionise computing. In 1990.

They were still using transputers in 1990?

I remember them being launched in 1984... I thought they were pretty much dead in the water by 1990.

[VectraMan]

They were still using transputers in 1990?

I remember them being launched in 1984... I thought they were pretty much dead in the water by 1990.

Well universities always teach things that are out of date.

I forget. Maybe it was post-transputer, but they were still all talking about parallel computing as the next big thing. I did think Occam's way of grouping PAR and SEQ bits of code was really neat and based something else I did years later on that.

Hopefully there'll be a big surge of companies wanting their old C++ apps rewritten to take advantage of the now common place multi core processors, and those of us with the relevant experience can clean up. Boomed! Haven't seen much evidence yet.

[NickFitz]

Well universities always teach things that are out of date.

I forget. Maybe it was post-transputer, but they were still all talking about parallel computing as the next big thing. I did think Occam's way of grouping PAR and SEQ bits of code was really neat and based something else I did years later on that.

Hopefully there'll be a big surge of companies wanting their old C++ apps rewritten to take advantage of the now common place multi core processors, and those of us with the relevant experience can clean up. Boomed! Haven't seen much evidence yet.

It seems from Wikipedia that there was still activity in the transputer/occam scene around that time, although it's a bit light on dates.

I always thought they had great potential - I might still have the datasheet for the original transputer somewhere