On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> has hardware channels. And you can >> call from channel >> and execute code being sent down a channel to you from another cpu. > ... >> it's a very interesting architecture, to say the least. For me anyway >> the most novel thing I've seen in a while. > > Interesting but not novel. Remember the transputer, circa 1985? Hardware > channels, both inter- and intra-chip. The normal way of loading code was > to read it down a link from another processor - used for bootstrapping > an array of transputers, but also could be used for dynamic propagation > of processes through the network. >
yes, but IIRC the transputer did not have the ability to execute code from a channel in the way the ambric does -- literally having a PC that includes a channel ID. There are a few other wrinkles to the ambric that make it a little neater than the transputer. Ambric is pretty well aware of what the transputer did. rno
