NEXTSTEP Transputer Driver

Contact:

Nicolas Droux
Engineering College of Biel-Bienne
Computer Science Dpt
Rue de la Source 21
CH-2501 Biel-Bienne
Switzerland
+41 273 315 phone
+41 234 377 fax
droux@isbiel.ch

A first version of the EIB-ISB NEXTSTEP driver for Transputer based 
massively parallel computers is now available on

	cs.orst.edu:	pub/next/submissions/nxtrans.tar.Z
	ftp.isbiel.ch:	parallel/tools/next/nxtrans.taz

It allows B004 compatible Transputer systems to be used from NEXTSTEP  running on Intel based computers. It has been tested with the INMOS D7205 occam toolkit and the PACT-C v92.1 compiler. Using other development environment is made possible by a NEXTSTEP version of the iserver program delivered with this package.

This driver is based on two main components: a Loadable Kernel Server which controls the hardware, and a daemon which allows user programs to communicate with the LKS.

The driver package includes:

	´	the driver LKS
	´	the driver daemon
	´	a NEXTSTEP version of the INMOS iserver with sources
	´	a NEXTSTEP version of the PACT pserver and pcc
	´	a driver installation note
	´	an INMOS D7205 and a PACT-C installation notes

Copyright (c) 1994 Engineering College of Biel-Bienne, Switzerland.     
									
The EIB-ISB Transputer Driver is free software; you can redistribute it for free together with this license agreement. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.                    

Nicolas Droux
Engineering College of Biel-Bienne,
Switzerland.

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