From: "Herman Roebbers" <herman7@IAE.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Transputer withdrawal symptoms
Date: 21 Oct 1998 20:04:43 GMT
Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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Hi,

Michael Stevens <none@me.nowhere> wrote in article
<6vs9hq$o1l$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au>...
> 
> 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
[snip]
> 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.
If you would rather continue to use occam here is some information you may
find 
of use:
At Twente University in the Netherlands people have developed occam for 
the SHARC (most of the occam features work) as part of the Kent Retargeted 
occam Compiler (KRoC) project.
This work was given (a.o.) to Kane Computing and Alex Computing to port to 
their hardware. I don't know if this has been completed but you could try.
You can also look on the Parallel Computing Archive at www.hensa.unix.ac.uk

or send an email to A.W.P.Bakkers@el.utwente.nl or P.H.Welch@ukc.ac.uk to 
check on the current status.
Alternatively you could use SPoC (Southampton Portable occam Compiler) to 
convert your occam into ANSI-C and compile that code on the SHARC platform.
You can also look on Hensa to download SPOC.

Happy hunting,

> Michael Stevens
Herman Roebbers