< language > (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@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu .
["Mentat: An Object-Oriented Macro Data Flow System", A. Grimshaw grimshaw@cs.virginia.edu et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):35-47, Dec 1987, OOPSLA '87].
(1998-05-15)