 Within a few years, the processing ability of even desktop computers ended the need for custom multi-processing systems for the firm.The German company Jäger Messtechnik used transputers for their early ADwin real-time data acquisition and control products.Transputers also found use in protocol analysers such as the Siemens/Tektronix K1103 and in military applications where the array architecture suited applications such as radar and the serial links (that were high speed in the 1980s) served well to save cost and weight in sub-system communications.