On Monday 09 June 2008 05:04:58 am Artur Kuptel wrote: > http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html > Which is based on > http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html > A very nice set of libraries. > Artur K.
Ha ha ha... no, that's not quite what I was thinking of. A search of "Amiga Tao Intent" pulled up a thread here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/13/tao_group_administration/comments/) with these comments: > it is/was a set of virtual opcodes and an indefinitely large set of > registers. ... >The virtual opcodes were translated to the host machine code, this could be >done either in advance or on the fly. There is no interpreter. And this: >ISTR Tao would seamlessly load-share across _any_ hardware platform for which >an interpreter had been compiled and thrown into the network, not restricted >to hardware with m68k interpreters. > >It was like a distributed computing Java platform on steroids, and it's shame >to see such an innovative technology go to the wall. And sadly this: >Actually, Taos, Elate, Intent et al were all based on something called VP, >which was a virtual processor bearing more than a vague resemblance to ARM. >Sadly, the development tools they provided were so utterly awful that nobody >was interested, and by the time they finally provided a C compiler it was way >too late. -Karl _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
