XMDS: the Xputer Multimedia Development System

Abstract

This paper introduces an Internet-based development system for transputers, which combines an application development framework with a runtime support to run applications on real hardware. The key idea of the Xputer Multimedia Development System (XMDS) is to provide worldwide, platform-independent access to transputer software and hardware. Therefore, XMDS's main system runs on the World Wide Web and is implemented in the Java language to run on all common Web browsers.