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: <
[email protected]>.
["Mentat: An Object-Oriented Macro Data Flow System", A. Grimshaw <
[email protected]> et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):35-47, Dec 1987, OOPSLA '87].
