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From: cme@cloud9.Stratus.COM (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Dynamically creating arrays of processes
Summary: It's against the occam religion
Keywords: Non VAL limits in PAR FORs
Message-ID: <4526@cloud9.Stratus.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 89 14:38:31 GMT
References: <2380@buengc.BU.EDU>
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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I haven't looked at occam in a couple of years but back then there was
no way to do ANYTHING dynamic (even allocate storage), so I called
INMOS and asked about it.  My inquiry took me all the way to the
president of INMOS -- and everywhere the answer was the same --

nothing dynamic for occam -- nothing dynamic for the chip.

So, I begged for info with which to write my own assembler (and, from there,
my own compiler with lots of dynamic stuff), but before I could get
INMOS to release such information, the project was cancelled and I went
into observer mode.  (all at a previous company)

Has any of this changed?


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