Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Path: utzoo!utgpu!craig
From: craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley)
Subject: Re: Why all of this NeXT talk?
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.200210.16197@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: A3000UX NeXT stop rediculous
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1991Feb9.083920.27791@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1531@pdxgate.UUCP> <18897@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 1991 20:02:10 GMT

In article <18897@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <1531@pdxgate.UUCP> hal@eecs.UUCP (Aaron Harsh) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb9.083920.27791@en.ecn.purdue.edu> doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis) writes:
>>>Amiga running Unix on multiple T800 processors!?  If you want number
>>>crunching... you got it!
>
>>  Do you think that Commodore has developed a UNIX to run on multiple
>>T800 processors?  Do you think Commodore will ever develop one?
>
>I don't think anyone will.  However, INMOS has already announced this 

Sorry, Cogent Research, Beaverton OR, already did it.  Not only that,
they built their bottom-level interface in C++ and Kernel Linda, which
makes for a very friendly distributed processing interface.  They avoided
Occam, wisely, and wrote their compiler straight to Transputer assembler,
I'm told.  Their box, the XTM, has been written up in Byte but they will
gladly send you papers and tell you how they did it all.  They also did
a clone of NeWS...

>distributed UNIX-ish thing for H1 Transputers.  In general, the Transputer

This may be based on the Cogent work.  Then again, it may be junk they
built themselves.  I have little respect for Inmos' software work, having
seen Occam.  What garbage.

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