Отправлено AK 13 сентября 2002 г. 03:40

The neatest thing about the IsoPod is software giving Virtually Parallel Machine Architecture.

Virtually Parallel Architecture (VPMA) is a new programming paradigm. VPMA allows small, independent machines to be constructed, then added seamlessly to the system. All these installed machines run in a virtually parallel fashion. In an ordinary high level language, such as C, Basic, Forth, or Java, pretty much anyone can make a small computer do one thing well. Two things at the same time occasionally gets tricky. Add a few more things concurrently competing for processor attention, and most projects start running into serious trouble. Much beyond that, and only the best programmers can weave a program together running many tasks in one application. Most of us have to resort to a multitasking system. That's a great amount of overhead for each task and an unpleasant amount of program complexity. The breakthrough in IsoMAX is the language is inherently "multitasking" without the overhead or complexity of a multitasking operating system. There's really been nothing quite like it before. Anyone can write a few simple machines in IsoMAX and string them together so they work.

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