Fancy Adding a Transputer Or Two To Your Atari ST?
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Summary
The ATW800 is a transputer workstation developed in the 1980s that used the Atari ST video smartcard and MIDI ports with a T-series transputer for parallel computing.
The transputer was a processor designed for parallel computing, featuring many processors on a single chip with very high-speed serial networking between them.
The machine was not a success and is now quite rare.
A superfan of the platform, Axel Muhr, has built the ATW800/2, which is designed to plug into the expansion bus and act as a transputer card the way it was originally intended.
The ATW800/2 features an FPGA with a synthetic transputer core, 6Mb of RAM, the original Inmos C011 link adapter chip, and two TRAM slots for physical transputers with their own dedicated RAM.
The FPGA gives the Atari ST access to high resolutions, HDMI output and GPU acceleration.
