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John O'Regan
Feb 12, 2012, 11:52:39 AM2/12/12
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Hello All,
Hope you find the following two links of interest:
http://goo.gl/ocHAi
http://goo.gl/lEAy3
The first is the sad news that NASA has unplugged its last mainframe
and the second is a short article on event-driven servers,
enjoy,
John
Paul Morrison
Feb 24, 2012, 1:46:09 PM2/24/12
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Thanks for sending these, John! Just got round to reading the second
one, and the event loop sounds much like the picture I put on the
cover of the 2nd edition of my book. It also makes me wonder if Java
and C# multithreading are too heavy-duty for what we are trying to do
in FBP? The AMPS multithreading (IBM mainframe green threads written
in Assembler) was much more light-weight, and we ran a bank on a 2
Mips machine! See also Sriram Srinivasan's Kilim - http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim/
- although IIRC there were some programmability problems with it.
one, and the event loop sounds much like the picture I put on the
cover of the 2nd edition of my book. It also makes me wonder if Java
and C# multithreading are too heavy-duty for what we are trying to do
in FBP? The AMPS multithreading (IBM mainframe green threads written
in Assembler) was much more light-weight, and we ran a bank on a 2
Mips machine! See also Sriram Srinivasan's Kilim - http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim/
- although IIRC there were some programmability problems with it.
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