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fanf2yesterday at 12:28 AM2 repliesview on HN

Inmos? Transputers were inspired by Hoare’s CSP.


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EdNuttingyesterday at 12:41 AM

“Inspired by” is an understatement of the century lol. David May and Sir Tony worked very closely together to enable the architecture to be as pure a runtime for CSP as you could get - at least in early versions of the architecture and accompanying Occam language. It expanded and deviated a bit later on iirc.

Source: David loved to tell some of these stories to us as students at Bristol.

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dborehamyesterday at 7:12 PM

Yes.