Mentat


Mentat

(language)(After the human computers in Frank Herbert's SFclassic, "Dune") An object-oriented distributed languagedeveloped at the University of Virginia some time before Dec1987. Mentat is an extension of C++ and is portable to avariety of MIMD architectures.

By 1994 Mentat was available for Sun-3, Sun-4, iPSC/2with plans for Mach, iPSC860, RS/6000 and Iris. Thelanguage is now (May 1998) supported in a new project,Legion.

E-mail: .

["Mentat: An Object-Oriented Macro Data Flow System",A. Grimshaw et al, SIGPLAN Notices22(12):35-47, Dec 1987, OOPSLA '87].