Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: bdauriol@bach.cs.wright.edu (Brian J. d'Auriol)
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR OCCAM FOR DOS/WINDOWS/UNIX
Organization: Wright State University, Dayton,OH
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 12:58:19 GMT
Message-ID: <3tgmlb$bov@mercury.wright.edu>

In article <3suq8d$8n9@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
Milind Bhandarkar  <milindb@homegrown.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>Surribas Ernesto <surribas@uxmcc2.iimas.unam.mx> wrote:
>>
>> I would appreciate relevant information conducing to obtain OCCAM compiler
>> or interpreter available for DOS/WINDOWS or UNIX. In other words, OCCAM
>> development environment which don't require transputers or special
>> hardware.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>>   Ernesto
>
>Ernesto,
>
>A few years back when I was in Center for Development of Advanced
>Computing, Pune , (India) my company used to sell a product called
>CODE. I do not know if they still support it or not, but I have used
>it and really liked it. It did not need transputers to develop and test
>occam programs and worked in the Dos environment. You could enquire
>about it by sending mail to postmaster@parcom.ernet.in
>
>-milind
>
>
>
Some years ago I was at the University of New Brunswick.  There 
we had purchased CODE from CDAC (Center for Development of 
Advanced Computing) Pune.  I have found that it was a useful 
tool during early Occam development.  However, the version we
had was not able to be well integrated with Inmos' itools (the
Occam toolset) for actual work on transputers.  Consequently,
I had abandoned my development work under CODE and went 
strictly with the Occam toolset.  I emphasize that my personal
experience suggests that CODE is useful only in a learning 
environment and not for serious development work on transputers.  
As an alternative, I suggest looking at SPOC (Southhampton Portable
Occam Compiler) (I think I have that spelled correctly, appologies
if I don't) which is available from hensa
(http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/)
This I have had installed under unix and it seems to be a
promissing (anybody can comment more here?) platform for
developmental work.  I believe that one other occam translator
(compiler?) is also available at hensa. 
I do not know if these occam translators/compilers are available
under a DOS box, but it may be worth your while to find out.
If you want more information about UNB's use of code,
you can contact Dr. V.Bhavsar at bhavsar@unb.ca (I very much
doubt, however, if anyone else other than I have used CODE at
that university!).

Hope this helps.

Brian d'Auriol
Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng,
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio


