nigel@modcomp.UUCP (11/26/88)
I have just received a copy of Perihelion Software's Helios-PC transputer operating system, and although it comes with copious technical documentation there is very little in the way of example source code. In particular I would like to see an example of programming in parallel using the Component Distribution Language; i.e. the source of each component program, as well as the CDL file. If anyone already has experience with Helios, I would be very glad if you could send me the source of any examples, no matter how trivial, of such parallel programming. I would be particularly interested in examples involving use of the farm constructor. Thanks, Nigel Gamble uunet!modcomp!nigel
rcomg@yabbie.rmit.oz (Mark Gregory) (11/29/88)
Hi Nigel, I also have just received a copy of Helios, and am very disappointed so far. I have it running on an AT with a b400 board. However it does not have any I/O worth talking about. Primarily my gripe is that I do not know how to talk to me EGA screen, ie set the registers using an interrupt. I do not want to use ANSI escape sequences. Do you have an AT? I would be interested in any help you may give, you may be more conversant with the C compiler than I am. If I here of anyone with CDL examples, or if we do anything of note here I will let you know. I can be contacted on Mark Gregory, Dept. of Commun. and Electrical Eng., Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Latrobe Street, MELBOURNE VICTORIA 3001, AUSTRALIA or ACSNet rcomg@yabbie.rmit.oz