Links The basic design of the transputer included serial links known as "os-link"sKazuto Tanaka; Satoshi Iwanami; Takeshi Yamakawa; Chikara Fukunaga; Kazuto Matsui; Takashi Yoshida. "The Design and Performance of SpaceWire Router-network using CSP". p. 2."High-Performance Computing and Networking: International Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 21-23, 1998 Proceedings". B C O'Neill; G Coulson; K L Wong; R Hotchkiss; J H Ng; S Clark; and P D Thomas. "An Interface Device to Support a Distributed Parallel System for the StrongARM Microprocessor". p. 1031. that allowed it to communicate with up to four other transputers, each at 5, 10, or 20 Mbit/s – which was very fast for the 1980s. Any number of transputers could be connected together over links (which could run tens of metres) to form one computing farm. A hypothetical desktop machine might have two of the "low end" transputers handling input/output (I/O) tasks on some of their serial lines (hooked up to appropriate hardware) while they talked to one of their larger cousins acting as a CPU on another.
Links The basic design of the transputer included serial links known as "os-link"sKazuto Tanaka; Satoshi Iwanami; Takeshi Yamakawa; Chikara Fukunaga; Kazuto Matsui; Takashi Yoshida. "The Design and Performance of SpaceWire Router-network using CSP". p. 2."High-Performance Computing and Networking: International Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 21-23, 1998 Proceedings". B C O'Neill; G Coulson; K L Wong; R Hotchkiss; J H Ng; S Clark; and P D Thomas. "An Interface Device to Support a Distributed Parallel System for the StrongARM Microprocessor". p. 1031. that allowed it to communicate with up to four other transputers, each at 5, 10, or 20 Mbit/s – which was very fast for the 1980s. Any number of transputers could be connected together over links (which could run tens of metres) to form one computing farm. A hypothetical desktop machine might have two of the "low end" transputers handling input/output (I/O) tasks on some of their serial lines (hooked up to appropriate hardware) while they talked to one of their larger cousins acting as a CPU on another.