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Occam and the transputer

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This paper examines the design of the distributed programming language occam and its implementation on the transputer, a VLSI microcomputer.

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    David May & Roger Shepherd

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May, D., Shepherd, R. (1990). Occam and the transputer. In: Rozenberg, G. (eds) Advances in Petri Nets 1989. APN 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 424. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52494-0_36

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