Editing Transputer (section)

{{Short description|Series of pioneering microprocessors from the 1980s}}
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The '''transputer''' is a series of pioneering [[microprocessor]]s from the 1980s, intended for [[parallel computing]]. To support this, each transputer had its own integrated memory and [[serial communication]] links to exchange data with other transputers. They were designed and produced by [[Inmos]], a [[semiconductor device|semiconductor]] company based in [[Bristol]], [[United Kingdom]].<ref>[[Allen Kent]], James G. Williams (eds.) (1998) "Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology", {{ISBN|0-8247-2292-2}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Sa9tz5SL1wC&pg=PA283 "The Transputer Family of Products"], by Hamid R. Arabnia.</ref>

For some time in the late 1980s, many<ref>{{cite book |last=Hey |first=Anthony J. G. |title=Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Supercomputing - ICS '90 |chapter=Supercomputing with transputers---past, present and future |date=1990-01-01 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=ACM |pages=479–489 |doi= 10.1145/77726.255192 |isbn= 0897913698|s2cid=8612995 }}</ref> considered the transputer to be the next great design for the future of computing. While the transputer did not achieve this expectation, the transputer architecture was highly influential in provoking new ideas in [[computer architecture]], several of which have re-emerged in different forms in modern systems.<ref>Stoker, & White, A. . (2000). Mechatronic cine-film copying using transputer control. Mechatronics (Oxford), 10(7), 773–807. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0957-4158(99)00043-4</ref>