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From: jam@pollux.cs.uga.edu (John Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: CFP: Annual Simulation Symposium
Date: 4 Sep 92 02:04:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                   26TH ANNUAL SIMULATION SYMPOSIUM

                       in conjunction with the
                   1993 Simulation MultiConference

             March 29 - April 1, 1993  *  Washington D.C.

The Symposium is seeking state-of-the-art papers from industry,
government, and academia.  This international Symposium is the oldest
continuously operating conference/symposium dedicated to simulation.
The Symposium features the Ira M. Kay Memorial Best Paper Award of $500.
Also, authors of top papers will be encouraged to submit a follow-on
paper to the International Journal in Computer Simulation.

Papers from all areas of simulation are welcome.  However, this year's
Symposium is particularly seeking papers in the following topical areas:
Parallel Simulation, Neural Networks, AI & Simulation, Object-Oriented
Simulation, Simulation Languages & Environments, Animations/Virtual
Reality, Simulation of Parallel Processors, Simulation of Circuits,
Networks, Distributed Systems and Databases.  All submissions will be
fully refereed.

The Symposium is sponsored by the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS)
in cooperation with	the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.

Please send by September 15, 1992 four (4) copies of a complete paper
(10 to 20 double-spaced pages) to the Symposium President.

John A. Miller, President            Philip A. Wilsey, Program Chair
Computer Science Department          Dept of Electrical & Computer Eng.
415 Graduate Studies                 ML 30
University of Georgia                University of Cincinnati
Athens, GA  30602                    Cincinnati, OH  45221-0030
phone: (706) / (404) 542-3440        phone: (513) 556-4779
email: jam@pollux.cs.uga.edu         email: phil.wilsey@uc.edu
From: kutscher@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Kutschera)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Info on OO Operating Systems  Conference/Workshop in Paris
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:57:29 GMT
Organization: IPVR, University of Stuttgart, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

Hi,

subject says it all. Someone told me about a conference/workshop on
object-oriented operating systems in Paris. If anyone has further information
including date, location, schedule, etc. please tell me via email (my
adress is: Peter.Kutschera@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de).

Thank you very much,
Peter
From: Jack_Palevich@taligent.com (Jack Palevich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: Lightweight threads and "real" users
Date: 29 Aug 92 04:59:06 GMT
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

The best practical advice I've seen on using lightweight threads is the DEC
SRC report "An Introduction to Programming with Threads", by Andrew D.
Birrell. (35 pages. (C) 1989 Digital Equipment Corp. Systems Research
Center, Palo Alto, CA. I believe that the SRC will mail you a paper copy of
this report on request, but I don't know their full address.)

The DEC SRC report seems to have been influenced by earlier Xerox PARC work
on the Mesa language. Mesa had language support for threads, monitors and
conditions.

Several years ago, when I started to program concurrently, a wise veteran
gave me this advice:

1) Within an address space use monitors & conditions, rather than raw
semaphores.

2) Never call out of your scope with a monitor held.

3) Between address spaces use synchronous send-and-wait-for-reply
messaging, rather than asynch messaging.

-- Of course, because I was young and full of beans, I ignored his advice. 
I said, "But why must I do this?  Can't I bend these rules just a little
bit? Surely one additional little feature won't get me in trouble!"

The veteran just smiled sadly.

Now, several years later, I have come to believe in these rules
whole-heartedly. If you follow them, then you should have no problems using
concurrency. If you don't, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the
complexity of concurrent programming. :-)
From: przemek@diku.dk (Przemek Pardyak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: request for a Concurrent Common Knowledge paper
Date: 29 Aug 92 05:01:03 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


Dear fellow-netters

For a long time I have been looking for the following paper on concurrent
common knowledge:

  Prakash Panangaden and Kim Taylor
  "Concurrent Common Knowledge:  A New Definition of Agreement 
  for Asynchronous Systems" 
  published in Proc. of 7th ACM Symp. on Principles of Distributed Computing

Unfortunately, I couldn't find this proceedings in any available library.
My request goes therefore to the network: could anyone help me with getting 
the necessary information by one of the following ways:
  - locating the authors
  - sending me a Postscript version of the paper (this is directed mostly
    to the authors, if they read this newsgroup)
  - giving me a reference to any over article in which the notion of
    Concurrent Common Knowledge is presented

thanks in advance
--Przemyslaw Pardyak
  przemek@diku.dk
From: fouts@bozeman.hpl.hp.com (Martin Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: Lightweight threads and "real" users
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:58:30 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

In article <17n06qINN793@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, Jack_Palevich@taligent.com (Jack Palevich) writes:
|> [...]
|> 
|> Several years ago, when I started to program concurrently, a wise veteran
|> gave me this advice:
|> 
|> 1) Within an address space use monitors & conditions, rather than raw
|> semaphores.
|> 
|> 2) Never call out of your scope with a monitor held.
|> 
|> 3) Between address spaces use synchronous send-and-wait-for-reply
|> messaging, rather than asynch messaging.
|> 
|> [...]
|> 
|> Now, several years later, I have come to believe in these rules
|> whole-heartedly. If you follow them, then you should have no problems using
|> concurrency. If you don't, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the
|> complexity of concurrent programming. :-)

If you don't, there will be a class of applications you will be able
to write more efficiently than otherwise.  The above rules are good
rules and should be followed unless you can discover a compelling
reason not to follow them.  The trick here is that the reason must be
compelling. My favorite multi-player video game is a concurrent
program which was written violating rule 3, was easier to implement
because it violated that rule, and, perhaps, easier to understand.
This is because the program only needed to send one kind of message
and that kind was broadcast here-is-my-state message which it could
send and forgot. 

Marty

-- 
Martin Fouts                  |  M/S 1U-14
Member of Technical Staff     |  HP Laboratories
EMAIL:  fouts@hpl.hp.com      !  MAIL:  P.O. Box 10490
PHONE:  (415) 857-2971        |  SHIP:  1501 Page Mill Road
  FAX:  (415) 857-8526        |  Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126

novae erratae!
From: hazen@budoe.bu.edu (Eric Hazen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: os9/68030 with SCSI drive/How to check drive errors?
Date: 23 Aug 92 17:38:32 GMT
	<1992Aug23.162302.1511@newshost.unh.edu>
Organization: Boston University Physics Department
In-reply-to: pss1@kepler.unh.edu's message of 23 Aug 92 16:23:02 GMT


DEC used to use Seagate drives in their Microvax I/II systems.
When ours started making that screaming noise, field service just
removed the ground straps.  If it's good enough for DEC, it should be
good enough for the rest of us!  :)

--

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Eric Hazen   hazen@buphy.bu.edu              Phone: 617/353-4117    |
|  Boston University Physics Dept                 Fax: 617/353-9393    |
|                                                                      |
|                    "O give me commentators plain,                    |
|              Who with no deep researches vex the brain" - Crabbe     |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: ZDV104@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Ralph Niederberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Subnetting with OS9 in a Class B Internet
Date: 2 Sep 92 07:05:11 GMT
 <181dtiINNsip@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

Hello all,

Can I set the netmask in an OS9 system to 255.255.255.0, if I am in an
Class B Internet network?

We have a VME machine running with OS9. This machine has an ip-address
of the form 134.94.202.nnn. It can reach machines, which are located in
other IP-Class-B-Networks over the gateway 134.94.202.1, but can not
reach machines with the address 134.94.mmm.ppp over this default gateway,
where mmm is not equal to 202. The broadcast address is set to
134.94.202.255.

Where can I set the netmask, or how can it be done?

Isn't it possible with OS9?

Best regards,

Ralph Niederberger             Research Center Juelich (KFA)
                               Central Institute for Applied Mathematics
                               P.O.BOX 1913
                               D-5170 Juelich
                               Tel.: +49 2461 61 4772
                               INTERNET: R.Niederberger@kfa-juelich.de
From: kientzle@beirut.berkeley.edu (Tim Kientzle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: getc() bug?
Followup-To: comp.os.os9
Date: 26 Aug 1992 22:50:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: beirut.berkeley.edu
Summary: Does getc trash D1?

I had this odd bug in a program which I finally solved by moving some
calls to getc.  From studying the effect on the assembly, it looks as
if getc() is trashing D1.  This is using the libraries supplied with
the MM/1, which I believe are the OS9 2.3 libraries.  Can anyone
confirm or deny that getc() has a problem?  And, if so, can
anyone suggest a simple workaround (other than re-arranging the code,
preferably).
					- Tim
From: dean@n5170a.nrl.navy.mil (Dean Clamons)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Looking for VME switch matrix cards
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:14:59 GMT

We are looking for switch matrix cards which will switch 64 channels onto  
8 channels. Any suggestions? What news groups might be better to look in?
Thanks

--
Dean Clamons
Naval Research Lab
Code 5110
Washington, DC 20375
(202) 767-2384
dean@n5170a.nrl.navy.mil
From: Sysop@sandv.UUCP (System Operator Paul Jerkatis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: TeX for OSK is on hermit
Keywords: FTP Delphi files uploads
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 16:42:16 CDT
Distribution: world
Summary: Internet submissions to Delphi
Organization: SandV OS-9 Public Access BBS

Welp... I have a proposal for those people that can't post stuff directly to
Delphi but are on the internet. Being that I am the Assistant OS-9 database
manager, I would be more then happy to receive files sent via mail through
the Internet and submit them to the database. I'll put some kind of blurb in
the submission description stating who it actaully came from to give proper
credit where credit is due. You can mail programs to my Delphi account listed
below. Please try to include some sort of description along with it...
--
 Paul Jerkatis - SandV BBS (708)352-0948 Chicago Area OS-9 Users Group
 StG-Net: Sysop@SandV   UUCP: ...{balr|tellab5}!vpnet!sandv!sysop
 Delphi : MITHELEN      Internet: MITHELEN@Delphi.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9,sub.os.os9
From: bmaddox@cs.umr.edu (Brian Maddox)
Subject: Info on Hermit
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:23:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: bmaddox@mcs213j.cs.umr.edu

   Hi there.  It's me again.  I would first like to thank everyone who E-mailed
me about the problem I was having with CUTS (I would have sent private E-Mail
thanking you but I went on a mad deleting spree and deleted the capture buffer
file that had your addresses).
   This isn't a problem, just a question.  Is hermit.cs.wisc.edu closed down?
I've tried to ftp to it but I keep getting time out errors.  I remember that
I had no problem connecting to it before college got out so I was wondering if
it's on my end or if they've removed hermit.  Thanks.
                   Brian Maddox (bmaddox@cs.umr.edu)
From: salerno@ast.dsd.northrop.com (Peter Salerno)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: OS9 on 68K VME / Wanted 6809 OS9 system.
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:23:33 GMT
Organization: Northrop Corp - ESD, Rolling Meadows, IL

In article <03Wh02fW1fxf01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> jjs40@cd.amdahl.com (John Sullivan) writes:
>Where can OS9 for a 68K CPU be obtained?  Can I get it in a flavor that
 Get in touch with Microware. OS-9/68K is very much available.
  (515) 224-1929

>Also, I'm interested in acquiring an OS9 capable 6809-based system.  
> ...
>know where I can find one?  Is a CoCo3 a viable option?  (I used to own one
>of the first CoCo systems.  A nice machine.)
 A CoCo 3 is viable, but you have to look in the used market. There is
good support from users, and the few vendors that are still around, it
is still my favorite.  OS-9/6809 is also only available from the
used market. 

    pete

Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: bmaddox@cs.umr.edu (Brian Maddox)
Subject: Info on CUTS format from listserv
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:04:43 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: bmaddox@mcs213j.cs.umr.edu

   Hi there.  Sorry to take up space on the net but I need some infomation.
Before I left for the summer, someone posted an explanation about why some
lines in CUTS format from the listserv are messed up.  Could someone please
E-Mail an explanation to me and how to correct the problem (if possible).
Thanks.
             Brian Maddox (bmaddox@cs.umr.edu)
From: kt@keihh.hanse.de (Kei Thomsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: TeX for OSK is on hermit
Date: 29 Aug 92 06:28:14 GMT

In article <AeaIUNm00WB8ESTUZA@andrew.cmu.edu> "Russell E. Hoffman, II" <rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Well, folks, after chasing it for nearly three years, I have finally found
>a PD version of the TeX typesetting program ported to OS9/68000. It is the
>port done by John Wainwright.
>...
>   Included are the source code to virtex and initex, as well as executables
>of each, and source code to dvi2tty, a dumb-terminal dvi previewer. I also

And what about Metafont, BibTeX ... ?

>included a simple C program called 'tex', which does the command line
>substitution of 'tex foo.tex' for the more cumbersome 'virtex &plain foo.tex'
>Now all that is needed is a printer driver to take the dvi files and print
>them out, as well as the rastered font files required for that printer driver.
>Let me know if you have source for a dvi driver of some sort. I'm looking
>for a dvi-to-epson driver myself, though I'm sure others are interested in the
>drivers and fonts for their respective printers as well.

I ported TeX 2 years ago and it runs perfect (and very fast, because I changed the 
file IO to direkt read() and write() ).
I have also very many DVI-Drivers (HP Laser, HP Deskjet, NEC P6, Epson, PS ...)
and a very fast preview (direct to my VGA).

Kei

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                  ||||
 Wildermuthring 90 || kt@keihh.hanse.de
 2000 Hamburg 62   ||    OS-9 68030 
 Voice 040/5205921 ||
 Modem 040/5200428 ||  300-14400 Baud
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From: shan@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Shan Ali)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: OS9 and C++
Summary: Is C++ used much on OS9 systems ?
Keywords: OS9, C, C++
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:45:57 GMT
Organization: Customised Software Solutions Centres, AOTC

Is there a C++ compiler for OS9 ?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: oxenreid@chaos.cs.umn.edu ()
Subject: Used/old os9 equipment.
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:31:21 GMT

Used Smoke Signal/OS9 Equipment

I have 3 Cpu Boxes Each w/

1) S50C Back Plane
1) PSA Tape/Hard Drive interface.
1) 256K Memory Board
1) SCB69 CPU Board
2) SER-2 RS-232 board (total 4 ports)
   Openings for 2 5.25" Devices

     Manuals per system
1) OS9 Pascal
1) OS9 Operating system programmers manual
1) OS9 Operating system users manual
1) OS9 Interactive debuger
1) OS9 Interactive Assembler
1) Basic09 Programming Language manual
1) Macro Text editor 
1) Smoke Signal Utilities and systems Generator manual

There is more information, but it would take up a lot of space/BW.  If you
would like I can mail you the information, that is if you are interested.

Please incude a bang path as I get rubber mail sometimes.
oxenrid@chaos.cs.umn.edu    or contact by voice Tom Westhoff 612.235.6096
.
From: mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu (Mark Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: HELP with OS-9 ISRs
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:01:35 GMT


	Does any one know how an Interrupt Service Routine can obtain the value
of the vector interrupt which invoked it? I wish to load the same ISR in the IRQ
polling table at several different vector values. The ISR needs to take only
slightly different actions depending on the vector interrupt which caused it to
run.



Mark Elliott                       |     
Dept of Radiology                  |     Voice: (215) 898-9357
University of Pennsylvania         |     FAX  : (215) 573-2113
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA         |     Email: mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu
From: zambotti@wpowz.enet.dec.com (Walter Zambotti DEC)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Burke & Burke contacts (6309 upgrade)
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:11:45 GMT
Reply-To: zambotti@wpowz.enet.dec.com (Walter Zambotti DEC)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade my CoCo to the 6309 equivalent.  I believe that
Burke & Burke have recently advertised a chip and OS9 software
enhancement to support this.

If anyone has a FAX or telephone number for B & B could you post an
answer here.  Or you could mail that to me.

Walter
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: megalink@runx.oz.au (Megalink)
Subject: Multi User TSMON Help?
Summary: Trying to figer somthing Out ?
Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 07:35:34 GMT


I am Working on a multi User TSMON program at this stage that will take the
place of the one with the OS9 Developers (This os9 6809 PS)

 The new TSMON will Do

   * Baud Rate Scanning
   * CD Detect/Monitioring
   * DTR Drop to disconect 
   * Use The Standard Login (Or Login of your Choice)

 But Best of all it will work on a file that tell's it where the serail prorts
are so for example i have a CC3 With 3 RS232 Ports (2 RS232 Packs) One with 
the Doubble Serial Port Hack) 

As i am using the thing now i am using 3 TSMONS to do the work this will only
need 1 In the future! Anyway why this message
 
well what i am after is users to write in to me and tell what types of RS232
Ports/Packs etc they are using and some info on them so i can write drivers
tN so i can support all types of different Serial Ports.. For when it is 
Releced to the Public.


Please Mail me as folows

megalink@runx.oz.au (mperkins)

 The MPERKINS bit is Inportant please put it in or the message will go to a 
public area on my System for all users to read!!

thanx in advance

megalink@runx.oz.au (mperkins)

Matthew Perkins

for the new TSMON
From: kientzle@spam.berkeley.edu (Tim Kientzle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: getc() bug?
Date: 28 Aug 1992 21:43:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: spam.berkeley.edu


I earlier described:
>>I had this odd bug in a program which I finally solved by moving some
>>calls to getc.  From studying the effect on the assembly, it looks as
>>if getc() is trashing D1.

Ron Moore (uunet!aimla!optimla!ron) asks:
> How did this show up for you?  The Microware compiler knows better
>than to rely on holding onto D1.  Are you using GNU?

   I'm using the Microware compiler from OS9 2.3 (my distributor
is being rediculously slow about getting 2.4 stuff out), so this
may have been fixed.  The abbreviated, simplified version is that a
statement such as
   wordval = firstbyte * 256 + getc(file);
doesn't work, but 
   wordval = getc(file) + firstbyte * 256;
does.  From the assembly, D1 is being used to hold the intermediate
value, hence my assumption that D1 is being trashed.
					- Tim
From: mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu (Mark Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Strange problem with setjmp()/longjmp() in OS9
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:54:58 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	I am programming in OS-9 v2.3 and cannot get setjmp()/longjmp() to
behave. I would like my signal handling routine to call longjmp() to branch
to a location in my main() routine as set by setjmp(). The branch occurs, but
shortly there after I get a Bus Trap error. The curious thing is that the
Bus Trap error occurs a different places in the code, even in subroutines
that have been successfully executed several times since the branch.
	I know that this sounds like a pure programming error in my code (it
probably is!) but I have made every attempt to figure it out. My question is:

********************************************************************************
Does any one out there know about some known problem/bug with setjmp()/longjmp()?
********************************************************************************

	I have used setjmp()/longjmp() successfully in small test programs, but
something is different in my large application. And I am aware of the constraints
required to use setjmp()/longjmp() (i.e. I have NOT called setjmp() in a
subroutine which was returned from before longjmp() executed).

	Thanks for any help on this.



Mark Elliott                       |     
Dept of Radiology                  |     Voice: (215) 898-9357
University of Pennsylvania         |     FAX  : (215) 573-2113
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA         |     Email: mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu
From: Sysop@sandv.UUCP (System Operator Paul Jerkatis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Where is StG?
Summary: StG where abouts...
Date: 27 Aug 92 03:50:23 GMT
Organization: SandV OS-9 Public Access BBS

Scott can be reached at "sysop@StG" on the StG-Net... Idon't know if he still
has Internet access or not...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9,comp.os.m6809
From: pczip@mips.nott.ac.uk (Ivan Powis)
Subject: GNU tar for OS9 ?
Reply-To: pczip@mips.nott.ac.uk (Ivan Powis)
Organization: Nottingham University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 07:59:28 GMT

Has anyone ported GNU tar to the OS9 system? I know that there is a tar
available on hermit (as was) but I specifically wanted the compression
and remote device support that are available with the GNU version.

Ivan Powis