Editing Transputer (section)

=== Scheduler ===
Added circuitry scheduled traffic over the links. Processes waiting for communications would automatically pause while the networking circuitry finished its reads or writes. Other processes running on the transputer would then be given that processing time. It included two [[priority level]]s to improve [[real-time computing|real-time]] and [[multiprocessor]] operation. The same logical system was used to communicate between programs running on one transputer, implemented as ''virtual network links'' in memory. So programs asking for any input or output automatically paused while the operation completed, a task that normally required an operating system to handle as the arbiter of hardware. Operating systems on the transputer did not need to handle scheduling; the chip could be considered to have an OS inside it.