From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 01:35:28 +1000 Message-ID: From: Shane Morris To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c3c178849fc105040dc8de Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on an Ncube-3? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 17560d76-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11c3c178849fc105040dc8de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 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! > --001a11c3c178849fc105040dc8de Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Simply wow.

One of the links in the Wik= ipedia page "See also" is the iNMOS Transputer - before I got bac= k into the Plan, I looked up what become of iNMOS. See=C2=A0http://www.xmos.com/ and just for the heck of it, I h= ave 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...!):= =C2=A0http://www.xmos.com/startkit= . The StartKit will talk SPI to a RaspberryPi just fine and dandy. Or e= ven an Edison if you really want to stretch the friendship. As you said, th= is 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 microproces= sors to do some awesome parallel tasks. This just screams 9, right? Well, a= pparently, the NCUBE-3 was supposed to run a microkernel called "Trans= it" which was said to be based on 9. Isn't that awesome? Someone h= ad the right idea! Now I know 9 ran on blue gene too, but for nostalgic sof= tware interest, would anyone have more information on transit? I think it&#= 39;d be really cool to see how they did it with the ncube hardware (hippi n= etworks, custom processors, custom intranetworks right down to the board) I= am aware that it might be proprietary and closed source, let alone difficu= lt 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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