Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!csnjr From: csnjr@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: transputer evaluation board (with T800) Message-ID: <854@its63b.ed.ac.uk> Date: 18 Dec 87 13:36:04 GMT References: <580001@otter.HP.COM> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: LFCS, University of Edinburgh Lines: 24 In article <580001@otter.HP.COM> writes: >>Hi > The only info I have is the Inmos compiler is available >in a Beta release version at #750, this price includes upgrades. From >speaking to Inmos they are not too impressed by the compiler. I wouldn't listen too closely to what Inmos say about compilers. They're chief complaint, I gather, is that the C compiler doesn't go as fast as OCCAM. Pretty self-evident, since the t/puter is an OCCAM engine. I also heard (but *don't quote me*, please) that Inmos received a beta version of the C compiler, for internal testing, and, since Inmos don't much care about languages other than OCCAM (i.e. about "alien" languages), they just shrugged their shoulders and put it on the market. Disclaimer: These are opinions based on second-hand accounts. *I* believe every word, but make up your own minds... -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten." - Herne