from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)