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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,
["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)