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Site: Vrije Universiteit Contact userid: usenet Contact name: Hans van Staveren Address: Vakgroep Informatica Address: Subfaculteit Wiskunde en Informatica Address: de Boelelaan 1081 Address: 1081 HV Amsterdam Address: The Netherlands Usenet partners: mcvax,sara70,vu45 Regular uucp: mcvax,sara70,vu45,vu60 Irregular uucp: Voice phone: 020-5484768 (Amsterdam,Holland) Dial in: 020-5485318,5485790,5482496,5485397 (European 300 baud) Subscribes to: net.general,net.unix-wizards,net.news,eunet.all,nlnet.all - intern vu.all Willingness: Will allow others to call us, don't have autodiallers Location: 52.28N 45.75W Comment: We are a university department with about 250 students. Comment: Our principal research interests fall in four areas: Comment: Comment: 1. Portable Compilers Comment: We have developed a system in which "front ends" translate programs Comment: to a common intermediate code (EM) and a table driven "back end" pro- Comment: duces assembly code from the EM. Front ends for C, Pascal, Plain and Comment: Algol 68 are in progress, along with tables for the PDP-11, VAX, Comment: 68000, 8086, Z80, etc. First release in summer of 1983. Comment: Comment: 2. Operating Systems Comment: We are developing a distributed operating system (Amoeba), and are Comment: also involved in various other related topics. Comment: Comment: 3. Data bases Comment: Another project is on distributed data bases. A data base handler Comment: for the Plain language has been developed. Emphasis is on security Comment: and privacy. Comment: Comment: 4. Theory Comment: Various theoretical work, with emphasis on semantics of parallel Comment: programming.