Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>... An explicitly-parallel mainstream computer makes
>possible some very interesting application architectures. The Transputer,
>a RISC chip from Inmos designed to be used in highly-parallel systems, is
>usually programmed with a language called Occam. Occam allows the
>programmer to specify data flow rather than control flow, and the
>computer(s) execute instructions whenever data from the previous step
>becomes available. While that's not what Intel/HP have in mind, exposing
>the parallelism at the source level could make for a new and much more
>powerful application design methodology.


For those who might be interested in a Transputer emulator:

http://www.stile.lut.ac.uk/~cojch/emulator.html






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