MS-Windows access for transputers

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3 total messages Started by Tom Burke Mon, 09 Nov 1992 23:05

#1277

Author: Tom Burke
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 23:05

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Hi,
	I'm using a PC as a transputer host and was wondering if
anyone out there in netland have written an extension to ``iserver''
which allows access to Microsoft Windows facilities?  A public domain
program would be preferable but any good commercial packages would
also be of interest.

	Thanks in advance,

Re: MS-Windows access for transputers

#1278

Author: Damon
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:33

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In article <1992Nov9.230533.13209@lucrece.robots.ox.ac.uk> tom@robots.ox.ac.uk (Tom Burke) writes:
>Hi,
>	I'm using a PC as a transputer host and was wondering if
>anyone out there in netland have written an extension to ``iserver''
>which allows access to Microsoft Windows facilities?  A public domain
>program would be preferable but any good commercial packages would
>also be of interest.

In the April 1991 issue of Parallelogram magazine I reviewed
Perihelion's Windows's File Server (for the Helios transputer operating
system) which provided a limited access to graphics on the host PC.

You should definitely see what their latest offering is, and they
are at:

Tel: +44 749 344203
Fax: +44 749 344977

[I posted this since I think the answer might be of general interest...]

Damon
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Re: MS-Windows access for transputers

#1279

Author: Rob Kurver
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:14

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In <1992Nov9.230533.13209@lucrece.robots.ox.ac.uk> tom@robots.ox.ac.uk (Tom Burke) writes:

>	I'm using a PC as a transputer host and was wondering if
>anyone out there in netland have written an extension to ``iserver''
>which allows access to Microsoft Windows facilities?  A public domain
>program would be preferable but any good commercial packages would
>also be of interest.

What we have done with the host server for our PACT Parallel C compiler
is provide support for so-called alternate servers.  An alternate server
communicates with the main server (which is an iserver superset, BTW)
through an MS-DOS software interrupt, which is registered as such with
command line options.  Now when the main server gets a request for an
alternate server, it invokes the alternate server through the interrupt,
passing it the info sent by the transputer, and sending any data returned
by the alternate server back to the transputer.  Transputer runtime
support functions hide the gory details from the user.

With this feature, it is fairly easy to write an alternate server which
provides all the Windows support you're interested in, without having
to mess with the original host server.  With the proper alternate server
you get all the normal host server support plus the extra features
required for a particular application or environment.

Cheers. - Rob

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