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The basic design of the transputer included serial links that allowed it to communicate with up to four other transputers, each at 5, 10 or 20 Mbit / s – which was very fast for the 1980s.

Any number of transputers could be connected together over even longish links ( tens of metres ) to form a single computing " farm ".

A hypothetical desktop machine might have two of the " low end " transputers handling I / O tasks on some of their serial lines ( hooked up to appropriate hardware ) while they talked to one of their larger cousins acting as a CPU on another.