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An interesting read:

It's the story of the UK's attempt to become a force in the emerging microprocessor industry of the 1970s, told by the man who was the driving force behind it.

In the first part Iann Barron describes how Inmos came into being and the thinking behind the revolutionary transputer.

In the second part, which starts at the point when Inmos had just secured its second slice of Government funding, Iann Barron charts the company's decline and fall.

http://www.transputer.net/fbooks/iandt/inmos_transputer.html



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