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From: stein@dhw68k.cts.com (Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: re: a xmas wish
Message-ID: <28810@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 28 Dec 89 21:38:59 GMT
Reply-To: stein@dhw68k.cts.com (Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
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In article <8912202119.AA23740@tbag.osc.edu> gdburns@TBAG.OSC.EDU (Greg Burns) writes:
>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
Well, your suggestion is a good idea.  They (meaning the IEEE/ANSI folks)
have a POSIX standard.  Isn't that about UNIX?  Why not have one for
frigging message-passing extensions to it?  Or an altogether new
standard for the message-passing OSs?  Lot's o' problems with this
one.

Lobby your local IEEE office and see what happens. :-)
-- 
Richard M. Stein (aka, Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Sole proprietor of Rick's Software Toxic Waste Dump and Kitty Litter Co.
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