Re: transputer evaluation board (with T800)

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From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1987 13:36

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In article <580001@otter.HP.COM>  writes:
>>Hi
>	The only info I have is the Inmos compiler is available
>in a Beta release version at #750, this price includes upgrades. From
>speaking to Inmos they are not too impressed by the compiler.

I wouldn't listen too closely to what Inmos say about compilers. They're
chief complaint, I gather, is that the C compiler doesn't go as fast as
OCCAM. Pretty self-evident, since the t/puter is an OCCAM engine. I also
heard (but *don't quote me*, please) that Inmos received a beta version of
the C compiler, for internal testing, and, since Inmos don't much care
about languages other than OCCAM (i.e. about "alien" languages), they just
shrugged their shoulders and put it on the market.

Disclaimer: These are opinions based on second-hand accounts. *I* believe every
            word, but make up your own minds...

-- 
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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From: csnjr@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: transputer evaluation board (with T800)
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