ALTOPS
Dan
Regards,
Dan
Dan
Original author: Paul Morrison
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John, as a curator of the RetroComputing Museum, and Henri B., as one
who is interested in computing archaeology, and of course anyone else in
this Google Group, this may interest you. An old friend, Nate Edwards
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Edwards ), has sent me some stuff on
a marvelous machine and system design that he and some colleagues have
been trying to generate interest in for a number of years. ALTOPS is
not only massively parallel, but its approach to system design relies
heavily on manufacturing and accounting practices. If I understand it
correctly, the internal architecture is component- and bus-oriented. It
occurred to me that some of you might be intrigued by the ideas, and
might either want to explore them more deeply - or might know people who
would.
I have uploaded some presentations to my web site, and I hope at least a
few of you will find them intriguing enough to pursue more deeply! Here
are a few of the files:
http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/npedwards/ALTOPS1.pptx
http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/npedwards/ALTPSUM1.pptx
He also sent me an old paper on program verifiability which may interest
a number of you - if you haven't already seen it:
http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/npedwards/PROOFS OF PROCESSES.pdf
and a presentation on the security advantages of the architecture -
ALTOPS believes in complete separation of data and code:
http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/npedwards/SECURITYSYS5.pptx
Hope some of you find this stimulating - and perhaps have suggestions as
to how Nate should proceed going forward. He feels that the
capabilities and challenges of the new hardware might make this timely
(a bit like FBP!).
Brad, maybe you remember Nate...?
--http://jpaulmorrison.blogspot.com/
