Remember to stay sharp

[HairyArsedBloke]

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...

In my case, I’ll be in long-term detention by the nuLieBore Stasi, awaiting execution for crimes that haven’t been specified.

[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Well universities always teach things that are out of date.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

[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Well universities always teach things that are out of date.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]

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.

[DimPrawn]

Which processor assumes overall control?

It don't work like that.

[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.

[TimberWolf]

Which processor assumes overall control?

[NickFitz]

Time to brush up my occam skills

[DimPrawn]

.NET can cope with anything.

HTH

[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...

[ThomasSoerensen]

This sounds some of us might need to keep educating ourselves

new way of programming