From: A E Lawrence Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: Transputer withdrawal symptoms Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:06:38 +0100 Organization: Not much. Message-Id: <362BB7EE.CBF8E6B1@computing-services.ox.ac.uk> References: <6vs9hq$o1l$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Stevens wrote: > > Alec Cawley wrote in message ... > >After five years programming transputers, I am back on conventional > >processors, with a conventional RTOS - and it is coming as quite a > >culture shock. > > Oh how true. I still do most of my algorithm design assuming I can implment > on something that at least supports some subset of CSP. Luckly I am still > able to target many projects onto Transputers. Their latency is good and > their speed sufficient for many realtime problems. We have plenty of legacy > hardware available which we can reuse (what a good Idea TRAMs were). > > Now we need to use SHARCS for future work. The selection of a decent > RTOS/language system that supports Virtual routing and is capable of fine > grain parallelism and has an ALT is still open. > > >I have been using C++ not occam, but with an occam-like structure - no > >shared variables, communication by channels, and communication is > >synchronisation. > > I just managed to get SGS C++ to work when hosted from NT. Does anyone out > there have any source code for classes that incapsulate processes and > channels? > > Michael Stevens Michael, Hope you are enjoying oz. You might not know that there is a KROC port to the Sharc done a couple of years ago at Twente. It was demonstrated at a WoTUG meeting. I am not sure about the current status, but I expect it is on the Hensa site. So Sharc users can have an extended high performance occam after all.... Adrian -- A E Lawrence (from home) adrian.lawrence@oucs.ox.ac.uk