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From: pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
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Subject: RE: Distributed OO Languages
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Date: 14 Sep 90 15:56:07 GMT
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>In article <1880@infbs.UUCP> jungclau@infbs.UUCP (Ralf Jungclaus) writes:
> >
> >Does anybody out there have experience with concurrent OOPL systems? As far
> >as I know, only research prototypes are available yet (ABCL/1,
> >ConcurrentSmalltalk, Orient/84K, POOL-T).
> >
> >Any experiences/pointers to other systems/points of contact are welcome.
> >Please e-mail me, I'll summarize if desired. Thanks in advance,
>
>Hi, I am Satoshi Matsuoka, currently a member of the ABCL project
>group now at the Department of Information Science, the University of
>Tokyo. We currently have a prototype version of ABCL/1 available via
....
I have recently finished a prototype implementation of   OO||, an
object oriented programming language / environment for distributed /
parallel processing.  It is in support of my phd dissertation.  
I will make it publicly available by the 1st of December (when I should
be totally finished).

The implementation supports distributed heterogeneous computing
environments.  Our test bed includes 30 SUN 3's,4's and Sparcstations,
1 Encore Multimax 6 Processor, 1 IBM 3090, 15 PS/2 70 AIX, 1 Cogent XTM
and  several plain unix boxes (vax, pyramid, att).   The language
supports inheritance, delegation, classes, activities, polymorphism,
numerous reflective capibilities, object migration and modification, 
class modification, and a lot of graphics stuff (the main are of my research).
   In essence, I can bring up a windowing envt. such as X and see a console
monitoring all objects in the system via machine nodes or software processes.
I can use the mouse to move objects to different machines, inspect objects,
change values of local state....etc.   
It runs fine, and looks good (subjective) and will be PD soon.

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