b'1988 OReilly Institute is completed andTeradata ad Hypercube & Meiko becomes home to the Department ofdemonstrate how in the 1980s theComputer Science department was engaged in the hot topics of1988ICL Clan 4 installed big data and parallel computing1988 IBM AS/400 installed Work continued in the 80s on transputers, 1989Wilde installed, Apollo DN10000 VLIWshared-memory multiprocessors and SCI 1980 Western Digital WD90 Pascalminisupercomputer and three DN3550(Scalable Coherent Interconnect) along with Microengine installed workstations running the Domain/OSrelated fault to tolerance and redundant 1980 Cambridge-ring (token) networkand the Mentor Graphics CAD package.storage arrays and in the networks area installed as well as thefirst 2Ethernet1989 16-Node Transputer system designed inespecially in conjunction with the European of MC68000 the department Unix Users Group1982 Smart Arms Robot manipulator 1989 VAX 11/780 retired and replaced by VAXThroughout the 1980s an interesting avenue 1982 Major funding from the European8530 installed by Digital Equipmentof research was pursued on lambda-calculusCommission for ESPRIT project received Corp (DEC) silicon compilation, with associated eorts 1982 VICOM Image Processor acquired on integrated circuit design (first with home-1983Symbolics 3600 Workstation grown tools but ultimately Mentor Graphics) 1983 Teradata DBC/1012 tree-structureas well as 3-d line-drawing and solid-database machine modelling graphics libraries1984A 16-node Intel iPSC Hypercube (4 d- A number of NS3200 projects weredimensional cube of compute nodes) conducted initially on the theme of 1984 A Northstar Dimension became the firstinstruction-set virtualisation and later on PC teaching tool in the department the design and construction of the first Irish 1986Meiko CSO Computing Surface installedUnix workstations (Trinity Workstation) (16 transputers, stack machines forwhich were used for teaching purposesHoares Communicating Sequential Process)19'