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Date: 13 Jun 89 17:59:31 GMT
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Parseq Ltd, a startup out of Southampton University is about
to unleash the SEP on the unsuspecting world. (Stands for systems
environment package, or as we prefer, Somebody Else's Problem).

We are looking for beta sites to bed this software down and for 
tool developers willing to enhance their products by interfacing
to this software. The SEP provides abstract resource management
through the use of a relational database. This is achieved by running
this and associated managers on the control transputer in a largish
switched transputer cluster. The managers allow switch setting, downloading
resetting etc, using user or tool defined processor ids. Binding to
physical resources is only made at download time, and only managers
know the grubby details of transputer bus slot, switch architecture,
control bus, etc. hence portability between machines that run the SEP
and hence the jibe that its Somebody Else's problem.

Other benefits include:

multiple instances of one code without configuration changes
multiple users when >1 host attached to control transputer
a transputer relational data base for free!

We currently support Supernode and Transtech racks, but are willing
to supply sources of managers for user ports to other kit. We will
have to make a charge for distribution and limited support, as we
bootstrapping the company on this project. However it will be cheap
and even if you dont like the SEP, you get the binaries of a single
SQL engine.

Please contact me for more details if you are interested.

Regards

Chris Jesshope

Parseq Ltd
14 Woodlands Close
Chandlers Ford
Southampton
S05 1AT
UK

44 703 593520

crj@uk.ac.soton.mc