available: Turing Machine interpreter progarm

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From: David Woodruff, dsw
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 04:45

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Hello,

I have written a turing machine interpreter with a reasonable user
interface and fair documentation.  It is available via anonymous ftp
from mitlns.mit.edu.  Copy all the files from the turing subdirectory.
You are welcome to it.  I would appreciate all and any comments and
suggestions.

With it you can create, alter and run turing machine models. 
Quintuple sets may be entered interactively or by means of an ASCII
file.  The interpreter can run 'macros', for executing frequently used 
command sequences, which may be entered interactively or by means of
file.  Both quintuple sets and macros can be saved to disk. 
Interactive help is available.

The program was written on VAX/VMS in C, but I have taken pains to be
sure that it is machine independant.  The purpose of the program was
two-fold:  to give me a tool for testing turing machines submited by
students in my discete math course, and to test some of my ideas on
what a command interface and a help utility should look like.

                                 Enjoy!
                                          David Woodruff


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