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Parallel Virtual Machine
     
         (PVM) 1. A {software} system
        designed to allow a network of {heterogeneous} machines to be
        used as a single {distributed} {parallel processor}.
     
        PVM was developed by the {University of Tennessee}, The {Oak
        Ridge National Laboratory} and the {Emory University}.
     
        {Home (http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/)}.
     
        {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.parallel.pvm}.
     
        2. The {intermediate language} used by the {Gambit} compiler for
        {Scheme}.
     
        [And Multilisp?]
     
        (1995-01-30)