mental

adj 1: involving the mind or an intellectual process; "mental

images of happy times"; "mental calculations"; "in a

terrible mental state"; "mental suffering"; "free from

mental defects" [ant: {physical}]

2: of or relating to the mind; "mental powers"; "mental

development"; "mental hygiene"

3: (biology) of or relating to the chin- or lip-like structure

in insects and certain mollusks

4: of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw

[syn: {genial}]

5: affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental patient";

"mental illness"

Mentat

(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: An Object-Oriented Macro Data Flow System",

A. Grimshaw et al, SIGPLAN Notices

22(12):35-47, Dec 1987, OOPSLA '87].

(1998-05-15)