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Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Thu Jan 12 16:26:36 EST 1989

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(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
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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





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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



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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



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 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:

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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



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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.

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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.

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  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.



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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:

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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.

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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.



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