Editing Transputer (section)

=== T8: floating point ===
[[File:Inmos T805 die.JPG|thumb|150px|Inmos T805 die]]

The second-generation ''T800'' transputer, introduced in 1987, had an extended instruction set. The most important addition was a 64-bit [[floating-point unit]] (FPU) and three added registers for floating point, implementing the [[IEEE 754-1985]] floating point standard. It also had 4&nbsp;KB of on-board RAM and was available in 20 or 25&nbsp;MHz versions. Breakpoint support was added in the later ''T801'' and ''T805'', the former featuring separate address and data buses to improve performance. The T805 was also later available as a 30&nbsp;MHz part.

An enhanced ''T810'' was planned, which would have had more RAM, more and faster links, extra instructions, and improved microcode, but this was cancelled around 1990.

Inmos also produced a variety of support chips for the transputer processors, such as the ''C004'' 32-way link switch and the ''C011'' and ''C012'' "link adapters" which allowed transputer links to be interfaced to an 8-bit data bus.