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From: lurch@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Liersch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: FTP site for transputer stuff?
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:37:28 GMT
Organization: Department of Electronic Engineering, La Trobe University


Could someone please point me to a site containing transputer related
software.  I have been to one such site out there somewhere but have 
lost the address.

What I am looking for is the source for iserver or afserver.

Also there was some discussion on a package that allowed a transputer to 
be accessed from the network if fitted into an IBM with an ethernet card.

Thanks,

Lurch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: trachos@uni-paderborn.de (Konstantin Trachos)
Subject: imakef for C++
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:46:45 GMT

	I'm using Glockenspiel's C++ compiler and it works very well.
Although I build the corresponding makefiles to each project I would 
rather like to use imakef for that. So I'm wondering if anybody has 
done the work to extend imakef's rules in order to create a makefile 
which builds .lib files from .cxx or .btl files from .cxx.

I would greatly appreciate any info.

    	Thanks a lot!

trachos@dat.uni-paderborn.de

Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: yhuang@bishop.ics.hawaii.edu (Ye Huang )
Subject: Parallel Matrix Multiplication 
Organization: SRA, Inc.
Distribution: comp.sys.transputer
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 00:53:15 GMT


Hello There,

We have a Meiko transputer system. I am trying different mappings to
perform the MATRICES MULTIPLICATION on it. 

Our configuration has 32 processors. I have the coded for mesh, torus.
But the speedup is not quite close to the theoretical results (and
even some paper reported results).

My guessing is that probably I did something inaproporate in the
implementation of them. 

I would appreciate to receive some your implementation of this
problem as pointers to benchmark my implementation. Preferabl on Meiko
since we only have meiko system here.

I will post a summary along with my final version of the problem.

Cheers.

---Thomas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.parallel
From: djb1@ukc.ac.uk (D.J.Beckett)
Subject: Re: WoTUG T9000 Systems Workshop Summary
Reply-To: djb1@ukc.ac.uk (David Beckett)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:53:23 GMT


In article <1992Oct15.124810.4050@hubcap.clemson.edu> clsi!!kevin@uunet.UU.NET writes:
>
>In article <1874@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, djb1@ukc.ac.uk (David Beckett) writes:
>> 
>>   The first day began with an overview of what the T9000 offered,
>                                                           ^^^^^^^
>
>Is this "will" offer, or have they actually managed to build something in
>silicon?

The silicon that we were shown was the T9000 alpha, with _only_ the VCP
missing.  The VCP/virtual channels already work and the tester for that
was produced months ago.

The photo mask of the processor dye for the T9000 beta was shown: this
had the VCP present and at the current time, the silicon for this has
been available for a few weeks now and is in testing.

[All this information is correct, I hope.  INMOS people - what do you
say?]

Dave Beckett
From: nigel@dodo.inmos.co.uk (Nigel Holder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: NEW LINE CHARACTER IN OCCAM
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:37:11 GMT
Reply-To: nigel@inmos.co.uk (Nigel Holder)
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.

In article <1992Oct13.092832.16952@westminster.ac.uk> tyzec@westminster.ac.uk (Andy Macfarlane) writes:
>
>I am using a transputer simulator on a Sun Workstation. 
>
>Any ideas of what the new line symbol is eg \n in C. I suspect
>it will be in the same for as say spk.ok, but I can't find it 
>anywhere
>
>Andrew MacFarlane
>University Of Westminster


I am not quite sure on where and how you want to generate a newline
sequence, but here are two ways:


occam 2 Reference Manual (Prentice Hall, supplied with INMOS occam toolsets)
pp 92 states:

*c  *C  Carriage return
*n  *N  Newline

may be used in strings or as character constants.


However, an alternative method would be to use so.write.nl which worries about
how to send a newline sequence to the screen (or the other so.*.nl variants).


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Nigel Holder, Software Group, INMOS Ltd		Tel +44 454 616616
1000 Aztec West					Fax +44 454 617910
Almondsbury					UK: nigel@inmos.co.uk
Bristol BS12 4SQ, UK.				US: nigel@inmos.com

		"Lost in time like tears in rain.  Time to die"    Blade Runner
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: hope@netcom.Netcom.COM (John Giannandrea)
Subject: Re: Transputer simulator for SUN
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service
	<1992Oct2.090607.334@titan.inmos.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:03:03 GMT


    Stephen Doyle writes:
       If anyone wants to develop a public domain transputer simulator they are 
       quite at liberty to do so. INMOS do not have a policy of giving away 
       valuable intellectual property (especially that containing proprietary 
       information). You have already demonstrated that the availability of isim 
       has had some effect in stopping people from buying transputers.


this is completely bogus nonsense.

isim is a simple portable C implementation of a transputer instruction
set simulator.  any half-competent programmer could write one
relatively quickly.  it might even go faster.  the only "proprietary
information" isim contains is some trivial undocumented loader
information so that it doesnt need to simulate link booting.

i'm afraid your "real world" looks nothing like mine.  most of your
competitors do indeed give away source for instruction set simulators.
From: teig@autro1.UUCP (Oyvind Teig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: MINUTES OF OCCAM RE-TARGETING WORKSHOP WANTED
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:00:49 GMT
Reply-To: teig@autro1.UUCP (Oyvind Teig)
Organization: Autronica A/S, Trondheim, Norway


Could anyone (= Peter Welch ???) please give a short minutes of the

OCCAM RE-TARGETTING WORKSHOP
15-16 September 1992, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Oyvind Teig tel:   + 47 7 581268
AUTRONICA   fax:   + 47 7 919320
7005
Trondheim   email: teig%autro1.uucp@nac.no
Norway

08.10.92
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: stud2@aifbpirio.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Norbert Kuck)
Subject: INMOS ANSI C toolset
Keywords: C
Organization: AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (Baden / Germany)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:41:02 GMT

I'm working with the INMOS ANSI-C-Compiler and can't figure out
how workspace allocation works. 

Is there anybody out there who would like to discuss that kind of 
problem with me ?  I think it's too specific for a USENET discussion,
so please send me email:

stud2@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

Thanks in advance - Norbert Kuck




Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: asskleong@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
Subject: Re: HELP......on OCCAM!!!!!
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:00:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.213705.3456@memstvx1.memst.edu>, yhsim@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
> 	Can someone please send me some info about OCCAM?  Any references
> would  be appreciated?
> 
        What kind of information you are looking for ?
        Basically OCCAM is one of the languages that you can use to
program on the transputers.  It is extremely powerful in dealing with
the channel communication and the protocol for the communications 
between the transputers.

        For more information, you may be interested in the following
books :
 	A TUTORIAL INTRODUCTION TO OCCAM PROGRAMMING
 	   -- Dick Pountain and David May

 	OCCAM 2 REFERENCE MANUAL
	  -- C.A.R. Hoare

 	and also some of the other publications by INMOS LTD.

        You are welcome.
> 	Thanks a lot!!
> 
> Yan Sim
Happy reading
Soon Khing Leong

>  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: spahni@cui.unige.ch (SPAHNI Stephane)
Subject: Looking for info on downloading
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 10:12:06 GMT

I am looking for some informations on how a program is downloaded into
a network of transputers. Any reference on papers, books, etc on the
subject ? (I am not looking for something very technical, but more the
general concepts).
The history of transputers also interests me (design considerations, mandatory
features, etc).

Many thanks in advance !
Stephane Spahni
UofGeneva
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: WoTUG membership - change of contact imminent
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:52:11 +0100
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

A couple of weeks ago I asked if anyone knew what had happened to the WoTUG
membership list cirulated at the Aberdeen conference. Following that I received
a reply from Setev Doyle at inmos. Here it is, for those of you who asked me
to forward the info.

>                                                                                
>The WoTUG membership will imminently be switching away from INMOS and
>instead be held by the University of Kent, the newsletter is likely to be
>distributed in electronic form via email or ftp (details still to be
>fully worked out). Until a proper mail address is established please
>drop a short note to Prof Peter Welch at the University of Kent to say you
>are interested in joining (phw@ukc.ac.uk)
>
>regards,
>
>Steve Doyle

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From: rdigior@jpmorgan.com (Rinaldo DiGiorgio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Subscription Information
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:59:03 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

How do I suscribe to this group or recover archive information?

				Rinaldo
From: apollo@ecf.toronto.edu (Vince Pugliese)
Subject: using C-tools for realtime work
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:39:40 GMT

 we were hoping to use our transputer system to do realtime control
work and were wondering about the suitabilty of using the C-toolset 
as a realtime working environment. is there any experience in this area?
thanks in advance
.vp
 


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From: mchstop@UEEHPA.EE.UMIST.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Ex PhD stud. seeks job
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:10:07 GMT
Organization: The Internet


                            PhD Researcher in
                   Fault Tolerant Parallel Processing
                            seeks Employment.

                      ****************************

I am a  PhD student at the University  of Manchester Institute of Science
and Technology (UMIST) in England.  I have recently submitted  my thesis,
for which I designed,  implemented and tested the Transputer hardware and
Occam2  software  of  a scalable,  fault  tolerant,  parallel  processing
system.  I am now seeking employment  in the field of parallel processing
while awaiting the final oral examination.

As  well as  using Transputer  hardware, Occam2  and Transputer  assembly
language, I  have also worked with  the following  hardware and software:
80X86 assembly  language, Turbo assembler, Turbo Pascal, PC Bus hardware,
680X0 assembly language,  VME bus hardware,  Z80 assembly  language, 6502
assembly language, 6502 hardware, 6809 assembly  language, 6809 hardware,
8051 assembly language, PL/M-51, 8051 hardware, plus some C and UNIX.

I  am a  British  citizen, although  contacts  from  outside the  UK  are
welcome. If  interested, please contact me  by E-Mail  (address below) or
at one of the following postal addresses:

UMIST Address.                University Lodging Address.

Room A16,                     Hulme Hall,
Dept of EE&E,                 Oxford Place,
UMIST                         Manchester.
P.O. Box 88                   M14 5RR.
Manchester.                   U.K.
M60 1QD
U.K.

Tel: +44 61 200 4736          Tel. +44 61 224 2862

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Marco Kesseler <marcok@cs.kun.nl>
Subject: Request (T800) Router Information
Organization: University of Nijmegen
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:35:06 GMT

Dear everybody,

	I know a lot of people have been working on routers for the
transputer. So did I some time ago. I'm wondering what the current
situation
is in this field (apologies if all this sounds too familiar).

Please don't send me messages like 'I'm using product 'x' and it is
really good'.
I'm even less interested in a discussion about the merits of different
solutions.
I just want to get a survey of what's available. To be more specific:

I'm looking for concrete and up-to-date (references to) information about
existing,
reliable routing software for the transputer (T800 and down). It should be
deadlock-free and preferably starvation-free as well. Things that
interest me are:

-	method/algorithm/protocol used. In what way is deadlock prevented?
	Timeouts? Classes? Specific safe topologies? etc.
-	results (bytes/sec/link, delay, memory requirements etc.) for different
	message size, different loads, different topologies etc. I prefer results
	for large networks, high load and extremely small/large messages.
-	interface: does it provide 'channels' between processes, some block
	move between processors or something else? Are messages buffered at
	the destination? synchronous or asynchronous communication?
-	availability (which language/architecure). Is source code available?
-	for which applications has it been used?

I've implemented a packet router myself that uses a class climbing
algorithm to
prevent deadlocks (provided every packet is consumed at the destination
within
a finite amount of time). It is starvation-free and uses an adaptive
routing
strategy (using shortest paths). It has been used for a prototype
transputer
implementation of the (lazy) functional language Concurrent Clean. I'd
like to
compare my router to other routers anybody is willing to tell me about.

Please feel free to use my e-mail address (marcok@cs.kun.nl) to respond.

Thanks!


Marco Kesseler
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Nijmegen
Toernooiveld 1
6525 ED Nijmegen
The Netherlands

marcok@cs.kun.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: HELP......on OCCAM!!!!!
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 13:28:38 BST

asskleong@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg wrote:
:  	OCCAM 2 REFERENCE MANUAL
: 	  -- C.A.R. Hoare

the "author" is INMOS ... though it's in the Prentice Hall
series who's series editor is C.A.R.Hoare

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From: gpcec@westminster.ac.uk (Tom Kirby-Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: OOP languages
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:47:09 GMT
Organization: University of Westminster

Folks,
	I'm sure this is a unoffical FAQ, but what the heck. Since I'm doing
a module on Object Orientated Design I'd like to play with some of these
concepts on the Arc in a language that has direct surport for 'em. What OOP
languages are there. I remember a while back talk of C++ finally making an
appearance ( first quarter next year? ). Are there existing languages.

	Many thanks, Just trying to be, Tom

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From: d1dd@dtek.chalmers.se (Daniel Deimert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: for sale: a3000
Date: 9 Oct 92 12:31:52 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

I have an A3000 w/ 2 MB of memory that I wish to sell. Please e-mail me
for more info.

--
Daniel Deimert (d1dd@dtek.chalmers.se | daniel@pkmab.se)
From: cmp0136@sys.uea.ac.uk (P. Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Sidney font...
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:06:12 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

ainsjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Steffan Corley) writes:


>2. Convert a PostScript font using !T1toFont (presuming I can get a
>suitable font). But how good a job does !T1toFont do? In particular,
>does it create Acorn scaffolding from the Type 1 hinting? Are these two
>systems even compatible?

	Does anyone know of any ftp sites with such fonts?  I would be
glad to know so I can try out the conversion process.

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From: as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: modem-program
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:51:52 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: as@opal.comlab

In article <1992Oct13.040828.11398@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
>sdaveyj@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>
>>heaps of features. (eg 115000 baud on A5000 multitasking downloading)
>			^^^^^^
>Isn't that a little fast for a serial port only officially capable of 9600 bps?
>And modems capable of speeds in excess of 19200bps are a little scarce...

I don't know.   Remember *officially* PC's serial ports (based on the
same hardware as the A5000) don't go all that quick either, but by careful
software are regularly driven to 115000 etc.   If this can be done on the
PC with its ``dead turkey'' (couldn't fly, never will:-) ) interrupt system
I'm sure some solid hacking on the Arc could get the hardware flying.

Also, just about any V32 modem with V42bis compression transferring
ASCII text will need an interface set above 19200 bps to maximise
performance.   Such modem's aren't *that* expensive or rare anymore,
especially now that V32bis is available.

Andrew
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From: julian@bridge.welly.gen.nz (Julian Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Wanted - Archimedes Binkleyterm
Keywords: wanted,comms,binkleyterm
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:03:39 +1200
Reply-To: wright_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: USS Enterprise, NCC 1701a

Subject says it all, really. Is there anyone out there with a copy of
Archimedes Binkleyterm they could possibly email to me? Or even better,
could someone upload it to the newcastle info server? I have been hunting
for this beast for ages now. I even found the source for the PC version
but am no expert at porting C code, especially when it includes 80*86
assembler, and have not had any success so far.

    Cheers, Julian.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: 3D borders
From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:44:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Jason M Banham) writes:

>Cast your minds back to last year when Roger Wilson posted (let escape) that
>utility !SetIcons to do such a job.

>Now that Risc OS 3.10 is out, the application discs also have this proggy on
>it BUT without the 3D borders/buttons.

>So, I dug out my older copy and tried this and nothing!
>It doesn't alter a damn thing.

No. Under RISC OS 3.10, these icons have been placed into a separate sprite
area in order to speed up access (less grovelling through sprite names
I guess...). There is a corresponding new command *ToolSprites which
replaces IconSprites for these sprites *only*.
So if you search for "IconSprites" in the !SetIcons runimage, and replace
the one(s) which load the 3d window border icons with "ToolSprites", it
should all work OK again...
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From: 2105995@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: AU Meet
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:30:05 GMT
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW

>In article <15586@suns4.crosfield.co.uk>, ojg@crosfield.co.uk (oliver gunasekara) writes:
>
>|> >My current suggestion is to gather at the nearest bar to the Acorn
>|> >stand at 12:00 on Saturday and then again at closing time for a pizza
>|> >hunt.
>
>All the Arcade users are meeting up at the Atomwide stand at the end of the
>show on Saturday.  They seem to think that the c.s.a people are doing
>likewise..  if that's the case I suspect that upwards of fifty people will
>be descending on the local Pizza Hut - I don't suppose anyone will think
>to call them first.. ;-)
>
I realise this may be a little late, but could someone PLEASE get a 
camera and do some snaps? A c.s.a one and a ArchieEcho one would be really
nice. Also, some of the actual show would be wonderful. I have only ever
been to 1 BAU show and that was *years* ago (I think it actaully was a 
Micro User show ;? )
I would especially appreciate any new products lined up (the interesting
ones like a VIDC20 in a carrier board if it's there ;) ;) ) to be
snapped at close detail.... (Soldering iron ready!!! ;) )
(Despite the numerous smileys in this article, please take SOME of it
seriously)
Perhaps then get a scanner and do a 200/400dpi scan and post them to cba?
Would the rest of the group like it? I know that those of us here in 
OZ/NZ would probably appreciate it muchly. Please remember that it gets
kindov lonely out here (I am the ONLY Arch patriot in unsw). I feel that
a couple of hundred k  of scans to cba would be justified if it meant 
keeping us overseas whingers off thine backs... (You LUCKY LUCKY people
living in a civilized country...;) )


>Bob

How about you, sir? Any good with a camera/scanner? B)



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