From: A E Lawrence <adrian.lawrence@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: ftest sourcecode
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:10:09 +0100
Organization: Not much
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Andy Rabagliati wrote:
> 
> Bernt,
> 
>   I have done a rummage amongst my stuff, but regrettably seem to
>   have lost the occam source code. It did not work on the later (any ??)
>   T8xx chips, was horribly unmaintainable, and was full of
>   ugly "long secondaries", the backdoor to executing
>   the microcode directly. But perhaps that was what you were after ..
> 
>   All I can suggest is running my disassembler over the .h files,
>   but it probably needs the comments to understand what it is
>   doing.
> 
>   I stopped supporting it, as the original code was written by the
>   chip designers (it was used 'at probe') and I didn't really
>   understand it - let alone be able to update it for
>   the later chips.
> 
>   Sorry. And if I don't have it, nobody does ..

I have a feeling that Andy sent me a copy of the source in the distant
past. It is just possible that I have a copy somewhere. Don't have time
to look right now, but polling me at say monthly intervals might
eventually produce something :-)

Adrian
--
Dr A E Lawrence (from home)

