Submission + - New Language for Programming in Parallel (technologyreview.com)
Steelwings writes: ParaSail looks like a modified form of C or C++ plus it will work on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers.
You must be young. I remember using acoustical modems back in 1974 and they weren't that new back then.
We also used UU encoded text files to down load binary files.
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