The transputer

The transputer is a programmable VLSI component with communication links for point-to-point connection to other transputers.Occam (*) is a language that enables a multi-transputer system to be described as a collection of processes that ogerate concurrently and communicate using message passing via named channels.The INMOS transputer architecture is standardized at the level off the definition of occam (rather than at the level of the definition of an instruction set).The implementation of the first commercially available transputers is illustrated by describing the implementation of occam.The paper concludes with outline examples of some applications.