Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!jrodrig@MITRE-GATEWAY.ARPA From: jrodrig@MITRE-GATEWAY.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Wanted: Transputer info - (nf) Message-ID: <12253@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 13:04:17 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12253 Posted: Thu Aug 9 13:04:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 00:24:16 EDT Lines: 23 From: jose rodriguezIn relation to the non-sequential msg from UUCP on Occam: I got some literature on the transputer and Occam which I obtained from Inmos directly. Your best bet is calling them and asking for anything on the subject. Also Prentice-Hall on it International Series on Computer Science has published the Occam Programming Manual. It is a reference and introduction to the language. On good thing about it is that Inmos got a version of Occam for the IBM-PC. The bad news is that it requires UCSD-P system. Let me ask a question to everyone: has anyone programmed/used/seen the transputer? What do people think of it? Inmos makes somewhat outrageous statements about the ability of parallel programming with the transputer. But I have seen no info from them on one of the key issues in of parallel processors: how do they deal with inter-processor communication bottle-necks? Jose jrodrig@mitre-gw