A Look at a Gaggle of Transputer Boards

According to Hackaday, a new retrospective examines transputer boards, the parallel-processing hardware that predated Beowulf clusters. Long before researchers and hobbyists strung together commodity computers with Ethernet, transputers were making an early attempt at distributed computing with a remarkably similar architecture. The piece explores these pioneering boards and their now-overlooked role in computing history.

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