gdburns@TOAST.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Greg Burns) (06/09/88)
Trillium Update: sed -e "s/Trillium/Trollius/" Trillium is a trademark of a software company and we therefore had no choice but to change the name. We settled on another New York State protected wildflower called Trollius, our new official name. If this is confusing, "the NYS wildflower OS" will get the meaning across. The focus of the project has changed considerably since the days of trying to build a suitable OS for the FPS T-Series. Fortunately, one of the major project goals was portability. We are currently working with vendors and universities who are in need of transputer programming and development environments. Trollius has been ported to the NiCHE NT1000 platform. The whole job took ten days, mostly due to Trollius abstraction and portability but also due to an existing NiCHE device driver and a straight forward hardware design. Feel free to email questions to me about the NiCHE product. A member of the original Trillium Diving Team, Andrew K. Pfiffer is hard at work at Topologix, his new home, making the Pentasoft tools sing T212 tunes and porting Trollius to the Topologix hardware. Back at Cornell, a project will be starting shortly to put Trollius on IBM Watson Research's Victor machine. The details are an IBM RT running Mach and up 256 transputers. Another project will be starting at Cornell to demonstrate Trollius to scientists on NiCHE/Topologix/IBM/anybody else's hardware. Once an application is working, it works on all machines. We will help strategic scientific codes get implemented under Trollius and then let the user decide what is the best hardware to buy from first hand experience. Naturally, we would like to add to the list of "anybody else". Unix ports are easiest right now, but VMS and OS/2 are distinct possibilities. Cornell is licensing Trollius to industrial and academic institutions. You also need a Pentasoft license to have Trollius. ============ Greg Burns gdburns@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center / Cornell U. cornell!batcomputer!gdburns (607) 255-8686 "...that's the way a Transputer works, right?" Trillium Diving Team