Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:22:30 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: jerry.hicks@glenayre.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony Playstations.. Message-ID: <XFMail.990105212230.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <36927DE7.D3A7B65C@glenayre.com>
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On 05-Jan-99 Jerry Hicks wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: >> >> Talking about UK supercomputers. Whatever happened to the Inmos >> Transputer of the '80's?. I remember seeing one of these parallel >> processing devices at an exhibition in the mid-80's. It was displaying >> in real-time a Newton's Cradle, photo-realistically rendered. This at >> the time when a 386 was the top of the range PC. >> > > Last design I saw using Transputers was a Siemens SS7 protocol analyzer. > > FreeBSD just lost a driver for a Transputer board in the recent culling > of "dead" software from the repo. > > Cheers, > Just before Christmas I managed to get SPOC, the Southampton Portable Occam Compilier to run under FreeBSD. SPOC is a Occam to C translator and it actually works. I managed to compile a fair ammount of my old code. There are holes though. It even does parallel execution of code right (PAR blocks), all in a single process and without any form of thread library. It uses a select() loop. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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