From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 5 13:37:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13005 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:37:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12975 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.46.40] (helo=ragnet.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zxe9d-0003kH-00; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:36:46 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0zxdvq-0000kI-00; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:22:30 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36927DE7.D3A7B65C@glenayre.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:22:30 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: jerry.hicks@glenayre.com Subject: Re: Sony Playstations.. Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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