simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) (01/13/89)
Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Thu Jan 12 16:26:36 EST 1989 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) Call for Papers - WSC 1989 (2) SIMULA Availability (3) Where to get Lund Simula (4) More About SIMULA (5) Response: E-MAIL address for SIMULA (6) Info. on utility of SIMULA * Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida * Send topical mail to: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu * Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu, login as 'anonymous', use your last name as the password, change directory to pub/simdigest. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 19:16:10 EST From: nelsonb@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Barry Nelson) To: simulation@ufl.edu Please post the following call for papers to comp.simulation: CALL FOR PAPERS 1989 WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE December 4-6, 1989 Capital Hilton Hotel Washington, D.C. The 1989 Winter Simulation Conference will feature methodology and application papers, educational tutorials, state-of-the-art reviews, and panel discussions on topics of current interest. Sessions will address topics in discrete event and combined discrete/continuous simulation. Papers or proposals to organization sessions in these areas are invited. Proposals to organize sessions or panel discussions and to present state of the art reviews or software tutorials are due by April 1, 1989. These proposals should be 1-3 pages (double spaced). Contributed papers are due by May 1, 1989. Only original papers which have not been presented elsewhere should be submitted. Submission of a paper implies that one of the authors of the paper will attend the conference to present the paper. Send four (4) copies of the full paper (double spaced) or of a three to four page extended abstract to the address below. Submissions should include the author(s)' full name, address, affiliation, telephone number, and a list of key words. Authors will be notified regarding acceptance of papers in June, and camera-ready copy must be prepared by August 1, 1989. Send all correspondence to: Philip Heidelberger, Program Chair WSC '89 IBM Research Division T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (914) 789-7156 ------------------------------ From: Rainer Klute <unido!trillian.irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de!klute@uunet.UU.NET> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 16:12:40 +0100 To: LLi.ESAE@Xerox.COM, Simulation@ufl.EDU Subject: Information about SIMULA manufactures Cc: klute@uunet.UU.NET SIMULA compilers are available for a wide range of computers - from micro to mainframe. The address mentioned in comp.simulation is that of the main manufacturer of SIMULA systems: Simula a.s. Postbox 4403 Torshov N-0402 Oslo 4 Norway (472) 156710 In addition to these information I can tell that they unfortunately have *no* electronic mail and *no* agent/dealer in the US. However, they have a telefax number: +472 156051. The main line of simula a. s. is their "Portable SIMULA System" (S-Port). But still distributes some older systems for machines where the S-Port systems is not available yet. There is another SIMULA manufacturer in Sweden: Lund Software AB Lilla Sodergatan 19 S-223 53 Lund Sweden e-mail: boris@dna.lu.se (Boris Magnusson) Their 'Lund SIMULA system' is running on several machines (Data General, VAX (under UNIX and VMS) and SUN). Portings to MacIntosh, Atari ST and Nixdorf Targon 31 are planned (the latter two are made here in Dortmund). The compiler is about twice as fast as the compiler from simula a.s., the generated code is a bit slower, however. And yet another one from Norway: TPH Data a.s. Glads vei 58 N-0492 Oslo 4 Norway I have the 'TPH SIMULA system' available on a SUN, but is does not work properly. The main reason might be that the author of the system has no SUN available himself. This system only implements (yet) 'SIMULA 67' and not 'Standard SIMULA' which is the actual language standard. Rainer Klute ---- klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Universitaet Dortmund, IRB |)|/ klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |\|\ ...uunet!mcvax!unido!klute D-4600 Dortmund 50 ---- Tel.: +49 231 7554663 ------------------------------ From: jevans@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Jevans) To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 01:07:47 EST Subject: Re: SIMULATION DIGEST V7 N2 Sender: calgary!news@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Path: calgary!cpsc!jevans Newsgroups: comp.simulation Summary: Simula Vendor References: <19611@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> I'm not sure if this is what you want, but the Canadian (North American?) vendors for Lund Simula are: Jade Simulations International #80, 1833 Crowchild Trail N.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada T2M 4S7 There is a special phone number, but I do not know it. In any case, the same person answers the Lund phone and the Jade phone. Jade's number is: 403-282-5711. Hope this helps... David Jevans, U of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Canada uucp: ...{ubc-cs,utai,alberta}!calgary!jevans ------------------------------ id 3294; Thu, 12 Jan 89 12:38:17 LCL Thu, 12 Jan 89 12:34:06 EST id AA02758; Thu, 12 Jan 89 18:17:30 -0100 Date: 12 Jan 89 15:28 +0100 From: "H}vard Hegna" <hegna%nr.uninett%norunix@NERVM.nerdc.ufl.edu> To: <simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> Subject: More about SIMULA This was picked up from the SIMULA Language List today: ================== Delivery-date: Thu, 12 Jan 1989 15:20:10 UTC+0100 Originator: SIMULA%CEARN.EARN@FINHUTC.BITNET Send-date: Thu, 12 Jan 1989 12:23:07 UTC+0100 From: The SIMULA Language List <SIMULA%FINHUTC.BITNET@CEARN.cern> Authorizing-Users: <R.Kerr%NEWCASTLE.AC.UK@CEARN.cern> To: Haavard Hegna <HEGNA@VAX.NR.UNINETT> Reply-To: The SIMULA Language List <SIMULA%FINHUTC.BITNET@CEARN.cern.ch> Subject: Re: Electronic mail address for Simula a.s.? Simula a.s. own the SIMULA trademark and produce compilers for IBM mainframes, PCs and IBM-compatibles. They do not have an e-mail address. In addition to the postal address already given, they can be reached by FAX: 47 2 156051. There are several other SIMULA suppliers. Among them are: Lund Software House, Sun, VAX, Data General, Hewlett Packard, Atari P.O. Box 7056, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden. Tel. 46 46 134060 FAX 46 46 131021 E-mail: Boris@dna.lth.se TPH Data A.S., Nord, Cromemco, NCR, Sun Gladsvei 58, N-0492 Oslo 4, Norway. Tel. 47 94 17286 Stockholms Datorcentral (QZ), VAX Box 27322, S-102 54 Stockholm, Sweden. SIMPROG AB, VAX Ostermalmsgatan 21, S-114 26 Stockholm, Sweden. Unger Huntsinger and Associates Ltd., VAX 5001 13th Ave. N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3B 1J1. Various other suppliers include: Control Data, Honeywell-Bull, Prime, ICL and Unisys. In a nutshell, the capabilities of SIMULA are: Conventional general-purpose algorithmic capability in the style of ALGOL. Object-oriented programming (classes) encompassing encapsulation, inheritance, information hiding, autonomous activity and strong typing supporting the concepts of modularisation, generalisation, specialisation, abstraction, polymorphism and pseudo-parallelism. Basic features for manipulating text strings. File concept supporting sequential and direct access methods for byte- and record-structured files. Large repertoire of utility functions. Features supporting 2-way linked lists. More complicated list structures such as trees and lattices are easily constructed from the basic class facilities. Features supporting discrete event simulation in various styles including the object-oriented process view. I would emphasise that although in many quarters SIMULA is best known for its simulation features it is a truly general-purpose language in the widest sense and was the inspiration for almost all developments in the field of object-oriented programming. There are a number of books on SIMULA. The best known are: "SIMULA begin" by Birtwistle, Dahl, Myhrhaug & Nygaard. Published by Studentlitteratur (Sweden), Bratt Institute (W. Germany), Chartwell-Bratt (U.K.) and at one time Auerbach (U.S.A.). "An Introduction to Programming in SIMULA" by Pooley. Published in various countries by Blackwell. "The Process View of Simulation" by Franta. Published by Elseveier North-Holland (U.S.A.) and North Holland (Netherlands). "Introduction to SIMULA 67" by Lamprecht. Published by Braunschwig Wiesbaden. "DEMOS - Discrete Event Models on SIMULA" by Birtwistle. Published by MacMillan. I hope all this is of interest to someone. Cheers....Ron Kerr ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jan 89 14:26 +0100 From: "H}vard Hegna" <hegna%nr.uninett%norunix@NERVM.nerdc.ufl.edu> To: <simula@finhutc.bitnet> Cc: LLi.ESAE@Xerox.COM, simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu Subject: Address of SIMULA A/S This just came in through simulation@ufl.EDU. QUOTE: ------------------------------ Sender: "Leonard_S._Li.ESAE"@Xerox.COM Date: 6 Jan 89 11:30:56 PST (Friday) Subject: Electronic mail address for Simula a.s.? From: LLi.ESAE@Xerox.COM To: Simulation@ufl.EDU Cc: LLi.ESAE@Xerox.COM We are interested in the capabilities and the cost of Simula. The 10/88 issue of "Simulation" lists the address of the organization supporting Simula as: Simula a.s. Postbox 4403 Torsho N-0402 Oslo 4 Norway (472) 156710 Does anyone know if they have an electronic mail address? Please also tell us if they have an agent/dealer in the U.S. Thanks. Leonard Li Xerox El Segundo, CA, U.S.A. ------------------------------ END OF QUOTE Comment: Simula a/s still does not have an E-mail address. We, the Norwegian Computing Center, have offered them an address through our node, which they think is a good idea - and very nice of us - but the arrangement has not been put into practice yet. But if somebody out there wants to reach them by E-mail because it is the most practical means of communication, please use my address. As long as the correspondence stays at a low and comfortable level, I'll handle the relay to Simula a/s. And confirm it to the sender when anything reaches me. And I'll pressure the Simula guys to start using E-mail. ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jan 89 15:40 +0100 From: "H}vard Hegna" <hegna%nr.uninett%norunix@NERVM.nerdc.ufl.edu> To: <simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> Subject: Re: Distributed Process Simulation Others may be interested in Ron Kerr's reply to Tam's question about SIMULA: ================================================================= Originator: SIMULA%CEARN.EARN@FINHUTC.BITNET Send-date: Mon, 9 Jan 1989 19:43:11 UTC+0100 From: The SIMULA Language List <SIMULA%FINHUTC.BITNET@CEARN.cern> Reply-To: <R.Kerr%NEWCASTLE.AC.UK@CEARN.cern.ch> Subject: Re: Distributed process communication Others may be interested in my reply to the enquirer at Harvard looking for a Sun SIMULA compiler. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Date: Mon, 09 Jan 89 17:01:00 GMT >From: R.Kerr @ uk.ac.newcastle To: tam @ edu.harvard.harvard Hi, there. Your message enquiring about packages for simulating distributed processes has been forwarded to me. SIMULA is almost certainly the best thing you could use for this. It combines the process-oriented discrete event simulation modelling capability with most of the the important features of general-purpose object-oriented languages. Despite being the inspiration for Smalltalk and many other object-oriented languages, SIMULA itself never took off properly in the USA. There are several reasons for this which I won't bore you with. You can get a SIMULA compiler for the Sun/3 from Lund Software in Sweden. It seems pretty reliable. I use it myself for an investigative project on constructing heterogeneous distributed systems. The price is approximately $1400 dollars for academic use. This seems pretty high compared with some other micro software but it does buy you a lot of functionality. If you are interested in this SIMULA compiler, you should contact: Boris Magnusson, Lund Software House AB, Lilla Sodergatan 19, S-223 53 LUND, Sweden. Telephone: +46 46 134060 Don't be put off by his answering system if he's not there. It speaks both Swedish and English if you hear it out. E-mail: boris@dna.lth.se I'll forward your enquiry to Boris. Good luck. Ron Kerr (Chairman, Association of SIMULA Users) P.S. SIMULA is available on many other systems. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you want more information. ------------------------------ +--------------------------+ | END OF SIMULATION DIGEST | +--------------------------+