braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) (11/16/88)
[] I hope members of this group realize that, in spite of Inmos's best efforts (in the past), there ARE several compilers available right now for the transputer, especially C compilers. There are also assemblers. Thus, one does NOT need to use the Occam language to utilize the interesting hardware features of the transputer, even though Occam has some nice features too. One can use the third party software, and Inmos themselves now offer C and FORTRAN too! So why doesn't the transputer take over the world? Lack of decent SYSTEM software. Of course, we at Cornell are trying to fix that with the Trollius OS... (and one should also mention Helios). There are already at least two vendors of transputer- based hardware (for UNIX hosts) offering Trollius. - Moshe Braner