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@Shaos @philpem My vintage computing bookshelf holds some German Transputer titles. No chip, though #transputer #vintagecomputing
@philpem I'm collecting books about those #transputer beasts since my Soviet student times (see 2 books in Russian on top) and recently I was able to acquire actual transputer chip :)
Gah. Someone's offered me what looks like an OK price on some #Transputer chips and I want them but .. I don't know if I'll do anything useful with them?
A solid morning's progress on #Transputer #Forth - it now displays the first part of the cold boot message 'eForth v' and then crashes before displaying the version number. More squinting at the emulator output required, but that's a task for another session.
New blog post on my investigation into choosing an #FPGA for Parachute (my #transputer project), study notes, and getting started with the #IceStorm / #APIO open source toolchains. So much to learn! :)
https://mattgumbley.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/first-steps-in-parachute-hardware-fpga-considerations/
At last, my #transputer project is ready to share!
I've written a program in the #occam language that uses a network of seven transputers ('80s/'90s UK CPUs for parallel processing) to simulate a flying flag --- much faster than the IBM PC/AT 286 host computer could do it, I think! (So #doscember too!)
I've also written a long writeup on how it works, with background on transputing and occam.
This was a really enjoyable project, so I hope it makes for fun reading!
YouTube teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-cUEJT1XQ
Writeup@GitHub: https://github.com/stepleton/flag/blob/main/README.md
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