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by adrian_b 2022 days ago
While the Transputers vanished eventually, their legacy is living in absolutely all modern multi-socket workstations and servers.

The Transputer method of partitioning a multiprocessor system, into processor chips provided with memory interfaces (now DDR), I/O interfaces (now PCIe) and communication interfaces for interconnections with the other processors, instead of using shared buses as before, was revived in some later DEC Alpha CPUs, then it was used in AMD Opteron (many AMD designers came from DEC Alpha), and then it was adopted by Intel (in Nehalem) and by everybody else.

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Yes, Inmos disappeared but their legacy totally lives on.