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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!dutrun2!dutncp8!rob
- From: rob@pact.nl (Rob Kurver)
- Subject: Re: low level features
- Message-ID: <rob.711729803@dutncp8>
- Sender: news@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System)
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- Organisation: PACT, Delft, The Netherlands
- Organization: Delft University of Technology
- References: <1992Jul18.184115.31878@urz.unibas.ch> <1992Jul20.141245.24196@inmos.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:43:23 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In <1992Jul20.141245.24196@inmos.co.uk> sidney@f40.inmos.co.uk (Sean Harris) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul18.184115.31878@urz.unibas.ch>, reith@urz.unibas.ch writes:
- >|> The transputer links are autonomous DMA engines, capable of
- >|> transferring data without seriously degrading the performance of the CPU.
- >|> Is it possible to utilize this feature in connection with high
- >|> programming languages? In other words:
- >|> Are there any high programming languages (except OCCAM-2) that
- >|> allow to start a communication and computation process in
- >|> parallel on one transputer?
- >|>
- >|> The Transputer also supports IEEE 754 standard 32- and 64-bit
- >|> floating point arithmetic, and so its hardware provides
- >|> directed roundings. Are there any high programming languages
- >|> (execpt OCCAM-2) that allow to access directed roundings without
- >|> using assembler?
- >|>
- >|> Thanks in advance
- >|>
- >|> --
- >|> Roman Reith
- >|> reith@urz.unibas.ch
-
- >Inmos offers toolsets for FORTRAN, C, C++ and ADA as well as OCCAM 2 and other
- >vendors offer the same langauges as well as such things as BASIC and Modulo 2.
- >All of the Inmos toolsets offer library functions to allow you to use alll of
- >the transputer parallelism, links and channels.
-
- PACT offers an ANSI conforming C compiler with language extensions that
- support the transputer's parallelism, links and channels.
- --
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