Title :
Programming transputers
Author :
Hazra, Tushar K.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Syst. Res., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
The ease and difficulty of using Occam, a unique parallel programming language developed for transputers, is discussed. The transputer and the Occam language are described. The scope and limitations of Occam are detailed. Issues that are often sources of common mistakes and may cause problems in the design process are discussed.<>
Keywords :
Occam; parallel programming; transputers; Occam; design process; parallel programming language; transputers; Central Processing Unit; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Hardware; High level languages; Microprocessors; Natural languages; Reduced instruction set computing; Scalability;
Journal_Title :
Potentials, IEEE
