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1 total messages Started by Greg Burns Wed, 20 Dec 1989 21:19

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Author: Greg Burns
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 21:19

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Would it not be nice if we had more standards in our corner of
the parallel computing world?

1) a standard object and executable format
2) a standard concurrency library for non-Occam languages
3) a standard, basic message passing library
4) a standard description language for multicomputer topologies

I think the only thing we do have is a standard file system interface, UNIX.
Am I wrong or can everybody handle

read(fd, buf, length);

You would think that with one chip we could get binary portability, but
I would settle for source level.  The Intel/Alliant PAX business got me
thinking about this.

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