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From: think!dfl@think.com (David Lively)
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Subject: Re: Need info on Parallel Lisp book(s)..
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Date: 11 Feb 91 20:11:54 GMT
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In-Reply-To: vu0208@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu's message of 8 Feb 91 20:18:28 GMT

In article <13022@hubcap.clemson.edu> vu0208@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu writes:

   I would like to know if there has ever been a book written on Parallel
   Lisp (besides the Connection Machines *lisp manual - which is of no
   use to the beginners!)...

Well, there are several Parallel Lisps.  A good book on one of them
(Paralation Lisp) which should be useful to beginners is:

@book{lang:paralation-book,
author = "Gary W. Sabot",
title = "The Paralation Model: Architecture-Independent Parallel Programming",
publisher = "The MIT Press",
year = "1988",
address = "Cambridge, Massachusetts"}

You can also get accompanying software that runs on PCs.

Disclaimer: I share an office with Gary, and he's threatened unspeakable
harm to me if I say anything bad about his book :-)  ... and Gary's working
on Fortran now ...

David