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From: neitzel@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Neitzel)
Subject: Modifications to the J interpreter
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> Any comments?  Has anyone else done something similar?

We're trying to incorporate some interprocess communication facilities
into the J interpreter.

There are two reasons for it:  (1) It looks like an elegant way to avoid
the incorporation of zillions of features into the interpreter (can you
say "window system"?...)

(2) We want to set up a system of cooperating J interpreters in a work-
station cluster.  (With some sort of parallization happening automatically.)

Some x!:y conjuctions will be used to deal with other processes, and
the concept of a "locale" might be more related to a J process in the cluster
rather than to a file.  I hope the Dictionary sticks for the quite abstract
definition of locales for some more time...

						Martin Neitzel
