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From: DanN@juliet.cs.umass.edu (Dan Neiman)
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Subject: Re: parallel lisp
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Date: 8 Mar 91 19:16:29 GMT
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     Just to correct some information in a previous message...

     Top Level, Inc. is located in Amherst, MA.  Their phone number is 
(413) 549-4455.   Their parallel common lisp runs on a number of 
multiprocessors including the Sequent Symmetry and the Encore.
The parallel Lisp supports futures and lightweight processes called 
threads.    The version I'm using (version 1.0) has a debugging
interface which runs on a TI Explorer and allows the programmer to debug
the individual parallel processes.  As I understand it, version 2.0
of Top Level Common Lisp will include a X-window based debugger with
debugging and metering software.


    I'm using the parallel lisp in my research on parallel production
systems and know the people at Top Level, but am not otherwise
associated with them.


Dan N.