Mentat

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Mentat
       
           (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,
          {Legion}.
       
          E-mail: .
       
          ["Mentat: An Object-Oriented Macro Data Flow System",
          A. Grimshaw  et al, SIGPLAN Notices
          22(12):35-47, Dec 1987, OOPSLA '87].
       
          (1998-05-15)