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].

(1998-05-15)