My final year project at University was building a real time simulation of the human peripheral hearing system on an array of T800s, written in Occam. The work continued without me as a PhD project.
What I had in mind at the time (once Moore's law reduced the size and power demand) was customisable hearing aids - the sort of thing that can now be done with AirPods Pro.
For a certain generation of system engineers it seems like early exposure to parallel programming on Transputers helped them get a leg up in distributed system design, especially once multi core systems came along.
My supervisors published a paper about it in Microprocessors and Microsystems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014193...
What I had in mind at the time (once Moore's law reduced the size and power demand) was customisable hearing aids - the sort of thing that can now be done with AirPods Pro.
For a certain generation of system engineers it seems like early exposure to parallel programming on Transputers helped them get a leg up in distributed system design, especially once multi core systems came along.