@InProceedings{DebbageHill90,
  title =        "{T}owards a distributed implementation of occam",
  author=        "Debbage,  Mark and Hill,  Mark and Nicole,  Denis A.",
  editor=        "Zedan,  Hussein S. M.",
  pages =        "158--167",
  booktitle=     "{OUG}-13: {R}eal-{T}ime {S}ystems with {T}ransputers",
  isbn=          "90 5199 041 3",
  year=          "1990",
  month=         "sep",
  abstract=      "Progress has been made in providing a reasonable distributed
     implementation of the occam language. Primarily, this has
     involved the development of a routing kernel with a latent
     channel connection retaining occam syntax. Channel semantics
     are maintained by a message acknowledgement scheme and
     unrestricted message lengths. This provides the user with
     the potential for fully connected process communication
     without restrictions on node valencies or explicit PLACEment
     of any hard links.In addition the user program has been
     severed from any dependency on the topology by allowing
     multiple configuration level PROCESSORS to map onto a single
     transputer. Thus the user code can be run on any network
     which has been configured for the virtual channel
     router.Further development of the system has allowed us to
     implement the dynamic primitives that will be required by a
     compiler for distributed full occam. These include dynamic
     channel creation, remote procedure calls and facilities for
     moving channel ends."
}