Re: A chip too far? Where is your solution Mr Larkin?

Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> writes:

If you don't remember your history you are doomed to repeat the same
mistakes. Do you not remember the Transputer and its lovely little
parallel processing language Occam. Scaled really well but they went
bust - probably because they were manufacturing in the UK.

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

Since that wikipedia page mentions C, Ada, Fortran and Pascal
compilers by Inmos for their transputers, I wonder if there were any
lessons learned then that could be used today. But I it looks like
those compilers didn't have any automatic parallelization of anything,
so I suppose they weren't that different than what threads provide
today.
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