POSYBL is a public-domain implementation of the Linda parallel processing environment, running on Ethernets, developed by G. Schoinas.

Schoinas' original package is available at the Finland site. Norm Matloff's somewhat enhanced version of the package is available here. Schoinas' documentation, converted to HTML, is also available here:

• overview of use and implementation

• tmanager man page

• nodefile man page

• startup man page

• system man page

The POSYBL notes by Dr. Matloff are available here too.

Other software Web sites by Norm Matloff:

• Professor Matloff's Unix/C tutorials.

• Dr. Matloff's introduction to the mutt e-mail utility. Don't use pine! It was designed for people who are afraid of computers, not for computer experts.

• His introduction to the elvis text editor. It is much better than ordinary vi (and far, FAR better than pico). X11 mouse capability; subwindows (even on nongraphics terminals); infinite undo; paragraph formatting and so on.

• Norm Matloff's guide to fast debugging!

• Dr. Matloff's beginner's guide to installing and using Linux.

• His general guide to editing program source code.

• Norm Matloff's Chinese-language software page.