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Re: low level features

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From: Rob Kurver
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:39
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In <1992Jul20.141245.24196@inmos.co.uk> sidney@f40.inmos.co.uk (Sean Harris) writes:

>In article <1992Jul18.184115.31878@urz.unibas.ch>, reith@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>|> The transputer links are autonomous DMA engines, capable of
>|> transferring data without seriously degrading the performance of the CPU. 
>|> Is it possible to utilize this feature in connection with high 
>|> programming languages? In other words:
>|> Are there any high programming languages (except OCCAM-2) that
>|> allow to start a communication and computation process in 
>|> parallel on one transputer?
>|>  
>|> The Transputer also supports IEEE 754 standard 32- and 64-bit 
>|> floating point arithmetic, and so its hardware provides 
>|> directed roundings. Are there any high programming languages 
>|> (execpt OCCAM-2) that allow to access directed roundings without
>|> using assembler?
>|>                 
>|> Thanks in advance
>|> 
>|> --
>|> Roman Reith
>|> reith@urz.unibas.ch

>Inmos offers toolsets for FORTRAN, C, C++ and ADA as well as OCCAM 2 and other
>vendors offer the same langauges as well as such things as BASIC and Modulo 2.
>All of the Inmos toolsets offer library functions to allow you to use alll of
>the transputer parallelism, links and channels.

PACT offers PACT Parallel C, an ANSI C compiler with language extensions to
allow you to use all of the transputer's parallelism, links and channels,
in an easy way.
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     PACT                   Rob Kurver
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  The Netherlands   fax: +31 15 610032
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