In August 1998, an interviewer for an Indonesian news weekly asked Amien Rais, a major figure in national Islamic politics and founder of the National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional), why he had altered the name of the party from the originally proposed Partai Amanat Bangsa. He replied, “We chose Partai Amanat Nasional because it would be better translated into English as National Mandat...

Transputing without transputers is mostly concerned with porting software to make other processors behave like transputers. One key aspect of the hardware is to provide these other processors with links. In the board described in this paper, IEEE 1355 DS-Links are chosen to plug in to PCI, which offers good performance, is inexpensive, and pervasive. The board uses a PCI chip, two C101 parallel...