bond%sce.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Greg Bond) (06/21/88)
I am posting this on behalf of Multiprocessor Toolsmiths Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------ In regards to the posting by Stephen Mackay concerning the Harmony Operating System, we would like to alert interested parties to a Harmony derivative which is available both to industry and academic/research institutions, and which we are using here: The Unison Real-Time Operating System. Unison offers users the essential features of Harmony, along with several important enhancements. A partial listing: Ada-like semantics of message passing, with a selective accept capability, Unix-like standard input/output, and Unix-like networking interrupt handlers can be written in a high level language (e.g. 'C'), without no knowledge of Unison internals required interrupt handlers run enabled, and can optionally signal tasks to run on their behalf tasks can accept signals and messages from the same system call Unison systems come with a simulator that runs in the host development system. Hosts include Unix workstations, DOS machines, and VAX/VMS systems. There is also a Unison debugger, which allows users to debug multiprocessor applications in real-time on the target system at the source code and assembly code levels. Unison is upward compatable with Harmony; all existing Harmony applications and servers can easily be made to run under Unisosn. Commercial support for Unison and associated development tools is provided by: Multiprocessor Toolsmiths Inc. Box 13365, Kanata Post Office Kanata, Ontario Canada, K2K 1X5 Phone: (613) 564-6875 Contact: Alan Donenfeld or Kim Rowe