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My teen years: The transputer operating system

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Re: My teen years: The transputer operating system

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This is so wonderful. I hope I can get your Transputer emulator running to try it. I wish I'd spent my teen years doing something so awesome.

One minor grammar thing: "didn't worked" should be "didn't work", because "do" in English as an auxiliary verb always takes the root form of the verb, just as "will", "may", and "can" do. Similarly "don't exists" should be "doesn't exist".

Re: My teen years: The transputer operating system

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Submitted title was "Released my full transputer OS, K&R C compiler and utilities (1996)". We've changed that to the title on the page.

(Actually we sometimes make exceptions when the author is the submitter, and I'd be happy to do that here, but the original title is pretty damn cool and will probably attract more readers!)

Re: My teen years: The transputer operating system

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post #2

This is so wonderful. I hope I can get your Transputer emulator running to try it. I wish I'd spent my teen years doing something so awesome. One minor grammar thing: "didn't worked" should be "didn't work", because "do" in English as an auxiliary verb always takes the root form of the verb, just as "will", "may", and "can" do. Similarly "don't exists" should be "doesn't exist".

Thanks for the suggestions! I've updated the article.

Re: My teen years: The transputer operating system

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Submitted title was "Released my full transputer OS, K&R C compiler and utilities (1996)". We've changed that to the title on the page. (Actually we sometimes make exceptions when the author is the submitter, and I'd be happy to do that here, but the original title is pretty damn cool and will probably attract more readers!)

Wow! Thank you!

Re: My teen years: The transputer operating system

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CD-ROMs and only 128k of RAM? Sorry, that doesn't pass the smell test. Once CD-ROMs were available, 2-digit megabytes of RAM were standard (and affordable) for home PCs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

Bold. In a different timeline they could have been the nvidia.

Re: My teen years: The transputer operating system

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

Bold. In a different timeline they could have been the nvidia.

“Parallel implementation of backpropagation neural networks on a heterogeneous array of transputers”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18255845/

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