Re: What makes Transputer interesting?

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From: Moshe Braner
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1988 21:08

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I hope members of this group realize that, in spite of Inmos's best
efforts (in the past), there ARE several compilers available right now
for the transputer, especially C compilers.  There are also assemblers.
Thus, one does NOT need to use the Occam language to utilize the
interesting hardware features of the transputer, even though Occam has
some nice features too.  One can use the third party software, and Inmos
themselves now offer C and FORTRAN too!  So why doesn't the transputer
take over the world?  Lack of decent SYSTEM software.  Of course, we at
Cornell are trying to fix that with the Trollius OS...  (and one should
also mention Helios).  There are already at least two vendors of transputer-
based hardware (for UNIX hosts) offering Trollius.

- Moshe Braner

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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: What makes Transputer interesting?
Summary: there _ARE_ C/FORTRAN/... compilers for the transputer
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Date: 15 Nov 88 21:08:05 GMT
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