Transputer Training

Flight Electronics Ltd. have taken a welcome initiative to familiarize programmers and electronics engineers with the concept of parallel processing, the operating principle behind the transputer. A lot has been said and written about concurrent programming and the trans- puter, but few engineers appear to have moved on as yet to this exciting new concept. Flight Electronics of South- ampton have noticed the shortage of transputer programmers, and have taken the initiative to supply a transputer train- ing kit containing • a processor board with Inmos transputer Type T414, 256 Kbyte external mem- ory, and a large prototyping area • an interface card for IBM PCs and com- patibles • a 15-way flatcable to connect processor board to PC interface board • a 9-V mains adapter • three floppy disks containing system software, and one containing an auto- matic start-up procedure - manuals: - installation and hardware descrip- tion - user guide - user manual introduction to Occam I...