Nicolas Droux
Engineering School of Biel-Bienne
Computer Science Dpt
Rue de la Source 21
CH-2501 Biel-Bienne
Switzerland
+41 266 314 phone
+41 266 523 fax
droux@info.isbiel.ch

This is version 2.2 of the NEXTSTEP transputer driver. It allows B004 compatible Transputer systems to be used from NEXTSTEP  running on Intel based computers. It has been tested with the INMOS D7205 occam toolkit and the PACT Parallel C v93.1 compiler. The distribution includes:

	- The driver (B004.config)
	- A NEXTSTEP version of the INMOS iserver
	- A NEXTSTEP version of the PACT pserver and pcc
	
These three components are delivered in pre-compiled form and have been tested under NEXTSTEP version 3.2 and 3.3. 

Version 2.2
	- Supports timeout during IO
	- Tested with ispy and mtest

Version 2.1
	- Significant performance improvements

Version 2.0
	- Rewritten from scratch as a DriverKit driver
	- Provides a UNIX-like interface (/dev/b004)
	- Does not require a daemon to be installed anymore
	- Checks for the availability of the card during startup
	- Faster
	- Borrows nearly no CPU time

Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 Engineering School of Biel-Bienne, Switzerland.     
The EIB-ISB Transputer Driver is free software; you can redistribute it for free together with this license agreement. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.