Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on an Ncube-3?

[Shane Morris <edgecomberts@gmail.com>]

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Simply wow.

One of the links in the Wikipedia page "See also" is the iNMOS Transputer -
before I got back into the Plan, I looked up what become of iNMOS. See
http://www.xmos.com/ and just for the heck of it, I have one of these, all
of AU$17 (plus Element14s dodgy postage fees of AU$13, so something that is
meant to be cheap becomes a rip - thanks guys...!):
http://www.xmos.com/startkit. The StartKit will talk SPI to a RaspberryPi
just fine and dandy. Or even an Edison if you really want to stretch the
friendship. As you said, this stuff screams "Plan 9 me!" So, uh, I will, I
guess.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Roswell Grey <orangecalx01@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello! I was doing some reading about old parallel computers, when I came
> across Wikipedia's article on this beast:
>
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE
>
> In short, it used hundreds of specially-designed microprocessors to do
> some awesome parallel tasks. This just screams 9, right? Well, apparently,
> the NCUBE-3 was supposed to run a microkernel called "Transit" which was
> said to be based on 9. Isn't that awesome? Someone had the right idea! Now
> I know 9 ran on blue gene too, but for nostalgic software interest, would
> anyone have more information on transit? I think it'd be really cool to see
> how they did it with the ncube hardware (hippi networks, custom processors,
> custom intranetworks right down to the board) I am aware that it might be
> proprietary and closed source, let alone difficult to obtain the source if
> it even exists anywhere, but there's got to be documentation floating
> around out there... Thanks guys!
>

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