Mentat
<language> (After the human computers in Frank Herbert's SF classic,
"Dune") An object-oriented distributed language developed at the University of
Virginia some time before Dec 1987. Mentat is an extension of C++ and is
portable to a variety of MIMD architectures.
By 1994 Mentat was available for Sun-3, Sun-4, iPSC/2 with plans for Mach,
iPSC860, RS/6000 and Iris. The language is now (May 1998) supported in a new
project, Legion.
E-mail: <mentat@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu>.
["Mentat: An Object-Oriented Macro Data Flow System", A. Grimshaw
<grimshaw@cs.virginia.edu> et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):35-47, Dec 1987,
OOPSLA '87].
(1998-05-15)
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