17 Aug
2013
17 Aug
'13
8:32 a.m.
On 17/08/13 1:01 AM, Ian King wrote:
...
I wonder what might have happened if Inmos hadn't expected everyone to
learn Occam in order to use their part? Not that Occam wasn't pretty
You weren't required to use Occam, except perhaps in the beginning. I
used C with minor extensions to support the process and channel
primitives. The C compiler (and assembler, linker, etc) was hosted on a
Mac, and the Transputers ran on a NuBus card (Levco Translink).
--Toby
cool, but I still remember the immense effort into
'parallelizing'
existing languages. Funny enough, FORTRAN showed the most benefit, which
most folks attributed to the belief that it was so awfully slow to begin
with. -- Ian