bailey@MIST.CS.ORST.EDU (Kirk Bailey) (02/16/88)
I would like to post a small quibble with Andy with regard to the ease of writting "network load" programs: Although it is pretty easy to get something working it is a fairly serious effort to do the job "right" with reasonable error recovery, minimized load time (parallel broadcasting of programs, etc), while still keeping the amount of memory consumed by the bootstrap to the minimum! For many people memory is plentiful, however, there is a class of user who just needs on-chip ram for an application (2K on the T414), and who would like to be able to load a program which can use most of that memory! In answer to the recently asked question about network loaders, LOGICAL SYSTEMS (aka me), does offer a network loader as a standard component in our new release of the "Transputer Toolset" (works with our "C" compiler and utilities). I'm fairly sure that Definicon also has a network loader but I'm unfamilar with it personally. A final comment with regard to Andy's posting: The "Transputer Toolset" does run on IBM PC's as he indicated but it also runs on a variety of other machines (about 1/3 of our customers use SUN workstations for example...) Cheers, Kirk Bailey Logical Systems P.O. Box 1702 Corvallis, OR 97339 (503) 753-9051