An Enhanced Transputer Server Architecture

This paper describes an Enhanced Transputer Server Architecture (ETSA). The purpose of ETSA is to provide a more flexible and sophisticated environment for interacting with transputer systems than is provided by existing server models. ETSA is a network-based architecture that permits the user of a transputer system to be remote from that system. ETSA supports arbitrary server communication protocols such as the iserver (SP) protocol and the afserver (AFS) protocol. This means that existing transputer software can run over ETSA without change. An additional ETSA server has been implemented that provides a number of enhancements to the Inmos iserver (when supported by the underlying operating system). These enhancements include multi-threading, support for dynamic server extensions, and support for multiple X window