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From: gdburns@TBAG.OSC.EDU (Greg Burns)
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Subject: a xmas wish
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Date: 20 Dec 89 21:19:02 GMT
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Would it not be nice if we had more standards in our corner of
the parallel computing world?

1) a standard object and executable format
2) a standard concurrency library for non-Occam languages
3) a standard, basic message passing library
4) a standard description language for multicomputer topologies

I think the only thing we do have is a standard file system interface, UNIX.
Am I wrong or can everybody handle

read(fd, buf, length);

You would think that with one chip we could get binary portability, but
I would settle for source level.  The Intel/Alliant PAX business got me
thinking about this.

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