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From: cwp@idtinc.UUCP (Chuck Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.cad.cadence
Subject: Re: Summary Design Archive
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:56:47 GMT
Organization: Integrated Device Technology, Santa Clara

In article <3921@phred.UUCP> kimb@phred.UUCP writes:
>Chuck Phillips or any other Cadence/Valid Users,
>
>	Were there any groups at the Cadence/Valid users meeting that
>	address the current problem with Design Archive?
>

The only item that I am aware of is from a technical panel. Cadence was
"reminded" that as they go to a true library format (in 4.x) the data may
be spread throughout the entire network without the user having any clue
as to where the data really is. Because of this the users feel that
Cadence needs to create a command that will generate an archive of all
data and related files. This was noted by Cadence but I am sure it is a
low priority for them.

The only other info that I can offer is that Cadence offers a Daisy to
Cadence translation package. I do not know how well it works.

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Newsgroups: comp.cad.cadence
From: jerrys@truevision.com (Jerry Schwartz)
Subject: Re: PCB Layout              
Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:56:49 GMT

In article <BuDEpL.EIH@sun3.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca> rjromanc@sun1.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Richard Romanczyk) writes:
>Does anyone know if CADENCE offers any CAD package for laying out Printed
>Circuit Boards and generating the masks onto transparencies ? Where can I
>get information about this ?
>
>
Yes, cadence now offers two PCB layout tools. Although they will only
try to sell you one of them, due to their recent aquisition of Valid.

They are merging tool sets of Valid and Prance (auto router only). 
If you are doing very simple boards and have lots of time to route, buy
the Valid tools with it's router. If you have boards that are typical in
the industry, meaning difficult, buy the Prance system as it is today.
The Prance tool will be discontinued some tile next year, but if you buy
it now you can keep it forever and get the Valid interface as a free
upgrade. I a benchmark done by Cadence at a users group meeting to
present the power of Prance a board was routed on similar platforms with
similar constraints. The results were not similar.

Valid: 46 hours and not 100% routed.
Prance: 1.5 hours and 100% routed.


			Regards,

			Jerry Schwartz
			jerrys@truevision.com

			"May The Schwartz Be With You"
From: rpalmer@Think.COM (Ralph Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.cad.cadence
Subject: RE: PCB LAYOUT
Date: 11 Sep 1992 17:20:30 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: basie.think.com

Yes, the Prance router is powerful given certain conditions,  however
the  interface stinks and Prance will not be integrated into
the Cadence tool set.  That means that you will have to treat all Cadence
schematic files as you would any other third party net list and can't use
any of the simulation tools.

The only good thing about Prance was the router.  Prance started life 
written in assembly code on an IBM 360 and would only spit out x-y 
coodinates.  A graphical interface was developed but was never integrated
well with any other tools.  The Prance router will be incorporated into
Allegro 6.0 along with the Allegro routers.  The Allegro routers may not
be as fast but in 6.0 will be linked to electrical parameters such as "route
this trace and make sure the cross talk is less than XX%.  

Allegro is not cheap with a full license including auto routers approaching
$60k.  It is a fine package if you are planning to integrate it with a Cadence
schematic capture system and simulation tools.   If you are only looking at
taking in forign net list and connecting the dots, check out some of the 
PC based systems.

Stay away from Prance, the only good part of the package will be available
in Allegro 6.0 in Q1 '93
					Ralph Palmer
					Thinking Machines Corporation

					rpalmer@think.com
From: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick)
Newsgroups: comp.simulation
Subject: SIMULATION DIGEST V29 N3
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:59:17 GMT
Reply-To: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu

Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Sun Sep 13 21:58:03 EDT 1992

+----------------+
| TODAY'S TOPICS |
+----------------+

 
[GENERAL INFORMATION]
  Fellowships at Tilburg University
[NEW QUESTIONS]
  Simulation for SUNs and PCs
  Simulation Data to Neural Net Interface
  Project in Performance Evaluation
  Intelligent Simulation Environments
  Simulated Annealing
[PUBLICATIONS]
  Cellier, Francois E.
[CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION]
  Qualitative and Neural Networks in Modeling
  1992 Winter Simulation Conference/Program
  Bond Graph Modeling and Simulation
  Integrating Reasoning & Hardware Description Languages

* Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida
* Send topical mail to: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu OR
  post to comp.simulation via USENET
* Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu (128.227.224.1).
  Login as 'anonymous', use your e-mail address as the password, change
  directory to pub/simdigest. Do 'binary' before any file transfers.
* Simulation Tools available by doing above and changing the
  directory to pub/simdigest/tools. 

 


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Subject: [GENERAL INFORMATION]


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From: "Jack Kleijnen, Tilburg, Netherlands" <KLEIJNEN@KUB.NL>
Subject: Grants in Tilburg, Netherlands
To: simulation@cis.ufl.edu
X-Envelope-To: simulation@cis.ufl.edu
X-Vms-To: IN%"simulation@cis.ufl.edu"
X-Vms-Cc: KLEIJNEN
Comments: This message was sent with PMDF 4.0

FELLOWSHIPS AT TILBURG UNIVERSITY

The 'CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH (CentER)' in the School of Management and
Economics of Tilburg University in Tilburg, Netherlands, offers several types 
of grants (CentER includes simulation research):

1. One type covers one month visits to CENTER. The
grants cover travelling expenses, a daily allowance of 100 Dutch guilders
(1 Dfl is approximately 0.55 US $), and housing.

2. If you are in the neighborhood of Tilburg and are interested in presenting 
a two hour seminar, CENTER offers an allowance of approximately 1000 Dfl.

3. Each year CENTER further offers one postdoctoral grant of approx. 60 000 Dfl
for one full year. 

For more information , please, contact:
Prof. Jack P. C. Kleijnen
E-mail: kleijnen@kub.nl
Fax: +3113-663072



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Subject: [NEW QUESTIONS]


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Newsgroups: comp.simulation
From: troillar@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr (Elisabeth Troillard)
Subject: Simulation environment
Originator: troillar@brusc
Organization: Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:21:35 GMT


Hi,

Does anyone out there know about simulation languages available
 for Sun or PC-compatible platforms. 

I need to simulate complex systems, with objects determined by attributes
 and discrete states. The objects should react to other objects state
 modifications according to their dependencies and to a predefined scenario.

My preference goes for a language like Simula, preferably in the public domain.

Thanks in advance for your help.


Elisabeth TROILLARD   Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne

troillar@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr

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Newsgroups: comp.simulation,comp.ai.neural-nets
From: P.D.S.Morrissey@lut.ac.uk (Patrick Morrisey)
Subject: Any Neural Nets to Simulation Interfaces ?
Reply-To: P.D.S.Morrissey@lut.ac.uk (Patrick Morrisey)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:22:26 GMT
Apparently-To: comp-simulation@uk.ac.uknet

I am posting this for a collegue of mine from Hong Kong, please
reply to his address as he is off to pastures new soon.

"I am pursuing research into decision making in Manufacturing
Management using an Artificial Neural Network approach.  The
Neural Network software that is available to me is :-

1) Neural Network PC Tools - by Academic Press Inc, USA

2) NeuralWorks Professional II/Plus - by NeuralWare Inc, 
   Pittsburgh, USA

The latter will be run on a Sun Sparc Workstation with 8MB of RAM.

I Intend to use real-life data from manufacturing industry for 
my work, however I would like to supplement this with simulated 
data.   As a result I am looking for a suitable software interface 
that links my Neural Network software to any of the following 
software tools :-

a) VS6, Visual Simulation 6 - by sysPack Ltd, UK

b) SimScript

c) SIMAN IV - by Systems Modelling Corporation, USA

d) MAST, the Manufacturing System Design Tool - by CMS Research 
Inc, USA

If anyone knows of any interfaces please E-mail me at :-

        MEYKFUNG@CPHKVX.BITNET
   or
        MEYKFUNG@CPHKVX.CPHK.HK

The responses I get will be collated and will be available from 
mid september to anyone interested.

Regards Richard."


P.D.S. Morrissey           Tel 0509 263171 ex 4248
Dept. Manufacturing 
Engineering, LUT 
Loughborough, Leic, UK.    E-mail P.D.S.Morrissey@lut.ac.uk
           
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Newsgroups: comp.simulation
From: pagli@spanish.chspr.ubc.ca (Nino Pagliccia)
Subject: DYNAMO
Keywords: DINAMO
Reply-To: pagli@unixg.ubc.ca
Organization: Centre for Health Services & Policy Res.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:56:24 GMT

I am planning to get DYNAMO for PC. I will have to learn
the language to simulate a model of human resources. Can
anybody tell me how easily DYNAMO can be used, its advantages
and limitations, etc, etc. I get a sense that DYNAMO is not
widely used; are there DYNAMO fans?

Any information is appreciated.

Nino 


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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 23:41:17 -0400
From: dklee@cs.UMD.EDU (Dennis Lee)
To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu
Subject: COMNET II.5 inquiry

hello netters,
	i am wondering if anyone out there has experience with using 
	COMNET II.5, a software simulation package by CACI.  In
	particular, I am curious as to its relevance to simulating
	routing schemes like: regular neighbor-table routing, flooding,
	and if i can add optimizing features to flooding (like make
	a node remember a buffer of recent packets so it won't retransmit
	unnecessarily and clog the network) easily with this package.
	
	All this is to be done in a packet radio network.

	i would also be interested in knowing if there are other better
	simulation packages that does the above mentioned job better.

	thanks.

=================================================================
|	Dennis Lee						|
|	University of Maryland at College Park Alumni		|
|	Internet: dklee@cs.umd.edu				|
|	Bitnet: DENNISLEE@ITIVAX				|
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From lb5532@neuman.sbc.com Wed Sep  2 09:14:41 1992
Subject: Simpack use and other simulation software
To: fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu (Dr. Paul A. Fishwick)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 8:12:06 CDT
From: Larry Bell <lb5532@neuman.sbc.com>
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL1]

I am responsible for computer performance evaluation and
monitoring for Southwestern Bell Telephone in St. Louis.
Recently I got a copy of Simpack and got it to compile.
(I am more of a user rather than a system administrator
so the subtleties of unix-ese sometimes baffles me).

We would be interested in exchanging ideas with others who
are using Simpack to develop computer or network performance
models.  Within a week or so this system will again have
Usenet access.
  Also, what are some current commercial packages for 
modeling in the PC environment.   I am aware of SLAM-II,
marketed by Pritsker Associates and would like to compare
others with it.
  Thanks in advance.
Larry M. Bell

(By the way, my machine, neuman 132.201.4.175 , may not
be in our nameserver, so to return mail to me you may have
to insert an entry into your /etc/hosts file.)


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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 21:39:15 -0500
From: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
To: comp-simulation@gatech.edu
From: hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd)
Subject: Re: Magazine subscription... suggestions?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:38:09 GMT

>|> I find that most of the magazines I see on the shelf are 90% advertisements and
>|> software/hardware reviews.  I would like to subscribe to a magazine that
>|> actually contains some good articles.  I want to know what's happening out
>|> there.
  Well ads are money, if the mag isn't making money on ads, they'll be
taking the money from the mag buyer.  More ads, less expensive.  But
endless reviews get me down, I don't buy a new machine every three months,
why all these endless buyer's guides to balhblahblahs?
-- 
-- Pete Hurd, hurd@sfu.ca          |"So I've got this 22Meg output file..." |
Behavioural Ecology Research Group |"Yeah, well delete it."                 |
Dept.Biol.Sci., Simon Fraser Univ. |"But how will I know what it says"      |
Burnaby B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada        |"Well, how will you know what it means?"|
From: bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Nixpub List Wanted
Date: 11 Sep 1992 04:13:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I am rather new at the Usenet and just read the Usenet introduct-
ory tutorials, etc. about Internet.
I will be travelling to another state in the near future and
one posting referred me to this Newsgroup for "Nixpub Postings"
for a list of local phone numbers in major cities where one
can access Internet and maybe Usenet as well.
I notice there is a lot of discussion here about "bogus Nixpubs"
but I cannot seem to find a listing of those phone numbers.
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks.
-- 
            Mike Romano     Univ. Calif. Berkeley
Xref: sparky comp.misc:3617 comp.periphs:1230 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:23669 comp.sys.misc:684 misc.consumers:16295
From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.misc,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: PC Connection, was: Re: Mail Order Hate Letter
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep6.213338.17616@cheshire.oxy.edu>, holmes@cheshire.oxy.edu (Mark Holmes) writes:
> In article <1992Sep4.130040.14498@hou.amoco.com> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us writes:
> >[lots and lots of articles talking about how great PC Connection is...]
> >
> >QUESTION:  why, if this company is so great (and from the previous posts,
> >I have no doubt that they are), have I never heard of them before?  do
> >they advertise much?  or do they just advertise in trade rags I don't
> >read?
> >
> >    [...]
>  
>    I've only seen them in PC World.  I know MAc Connection is advertised 
> somewhere, but I don't have a Mac.  They don't seem to advertise very much
> but they seem to get great reviews.  Maybe if they had more customers they
> couldn't handle the load and would be like USA Flex! :-)
> --Mark Holmes

The last PC Magazine had 6 pages of advertizing starting on page 300 which
is about there normal layout.  They also advertise in PC Week with 
a newspaper size 2 page spread.

I didn't catch what the other comments were about PCC but they are the only
people I deal with for mainstream software and hardware.  I can order it
today and have it in hand tommorow AM for $5 shipping.  About a month ago
I ordered a 105 MB hardcard for $60 less than I could find it elsewhere. I
placed the order at midnight CDT and had it in hand 10 hours later!  That
certainly beats the run around that you usually get from mail order 
sources :-(  

--rick

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| Colon Cancer Control Study     ATT     : (612) 627-4151         |
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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu ()
Subject: Re: PRODIGY - Speed, Cost, Usefulness, etc.
Organization: Temple University EE Dept.
Distribution: usa
Keywords: prodigy macintosh
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 19:17:21 GMT
X-Posted-From: moe.eng.temple.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Aug31.133003.26073@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.132528.28183@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston) writes:
>Part of my last posting was lost.
>
>>In article <1992Aug29.051624.6704@ctr.columbia.edu> jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu () writes:
>>>
>>>Well, my newspaper does not force me to read the ads, as P* does.
>>
>>I've learned to ignore the bottom portion of the screen just as ignore the
>>advertising in the newspaper.
>>
>>>I tried Prodigy twice, and the second time it was worse because
>>>they added animated ads. Not only did I have to wait for the ad to finish,
>>>many of them had 5-10 screens (animation cells).
>>
>>A little familiarity with the system could have avoided being stuck in an
>advertisement 'Jump', etc.
>
>Chas
>using 'Path',
>
You are assuming, of course, that there was somewhere I wanted to 'jump'
to! But then, why read Netnews if Prodigy is so engrossing? 
And, since P* turns off the keyboard until AFTER the ad is done, what
chance did I have to 'jump' anyway? My wife used 'path', and still got
snagged by the animation sequences.
IBM + Sears = Prodigy.

jim (still not convinced, but waiting for yet another free copy)


Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: u894601@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Peter Gee)
Subject: Anadex printer switch settings help
Organization: University of Tasmania (Australia)
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 06:41:25 GMT

WANTED: dip switch setting for an Anadex model DP-8000 printer using parallel 
interface.  Would also pay for postage and/ or copying costs to borrow manual.

Thanks in advance,
Peter Gee, University of TASMANIA
at:
u894601@postoffice.utas.edu.au
Xref: sparky comp.misc:3681 alt.bbs:5906 alt.bbs.internet:3656 comp.bbs.misc:935
From: asp@rodan.UU.NET (Andrew Partan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.bbs,alt.bbs.internet,comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Re: Internet link
Date: 11 Sep 1992 23:27:03 -0400
Organization: UUNET Communications
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net
Summary: Contact info for UUNET

In article <1992Sep11.204221.20938@telebit.com>, bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork) writes:
> Here's something I wrote up about what's needed to join. --Steven
> 
>                        Joining the Global IP Internet
....
> _____________________________
> UUNET Communications Services
> 
> UUNET offers many services, including Domain MX records and commercial
> internet access.

The contact info for UUNET is rather old.  We changed our phone number
at the begining of this year and we also have had an 800 number for
questions for some time.

Correct information is:
	UUNET Technologies, Inc.
	3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 570
	Falls Church, VA 22042
	Voice) +1 800 4UUNET3
	Voice) +1 703 204 8000
	Fax) +1 703 204 8001
	AlterNet info) alternet-info@uunet.uu.net
	UUNET info) info@uunet.uu.net

	--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
Xref: sparky comp.misc:3690 alt.folklore.computers:13910 comp.unix.misc:3650
From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: uNIX on tired iron FAQ
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:09:03 GMT
Organization: Private Computer, Totowa NJ

In article <erd.03jk@kumiss.cmhnet.org:, erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org (Ethan Dicks) writes:
: In article <1992Sep6.120818.2522@sugra.uucp> ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng) writes:
: >In article <erd.03io@kumiss.cmhnet.org:, erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org (Ethan Dicks) writes:
: >: How about a "Perkin-Elmer 7350 Professional" computer? 
: >Personally I would not get that beast.
: What would be a good price for this (effectively) single-user system?

No idea, sorry.  A couple hundred dollars?

-- 
Kenneth Ng
Please reply to ken@eies2.njit.edu for now.
Apple and AT&T lawsuits: Just say NO!
Xref: sparky comp.misc:3611 alt.folklore.computers:13728 comp.unix.misc:3564
From: erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org (Ethan Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re:  uNIX on tired iron FAQ
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Sep 92 16:34:48 EDT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Sep6.120818.2522@sugra.uucp> ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng) writes:
>In article <erd.03io@kumiss.cmhnet.org:, erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org (Ethan Dicks) writes:
>: How about a "Perkin-Elmer 7350 Professional" computer? 
>
>Personally I would not get that beast.

Thanks for the info.  I did use the system extensively when it was being
used for software development.  I even put up UUCP on it.  It is not
particularly fast.  I don't remember if this machine had 1Mb or 512K.
I do know that the disk was replaced.  The machine was shipped with 
a full-height ST506 and was replaced with a half-height SeaCrate disk
(40Mb, I think), so the disk is new (<100 hours)

What would be a good price for this (effectively) single-user system?

-ethan
--
Ethan Dicks     N8TVD ! This message is brought to you by the breakfast cereal
erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org ! of Pennsic Veterans everywhere: Beerios.
                      ! "They don't stay crisp in beer, but who cares?"
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Poor man's speech recognition (something simple)
From: Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan)
Date: 6 Sep 92 00:01:50 +1200
Organization: Equinox Networks
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Brian Kendig (bskendig@netcom.com) wrote:
>At the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, there's a computer exhibit
>that features a system that asks you to repeat six words twice each,
>then lets you toggle a lamp, a windowshade, a fan, music, &c. by
>speaking one of the words.
> [...]
>Can anybody point me to code that I could use to play around with
>primitive speech recognition?  I have access to a Mac with a
>microphone, and this looks like it could be a neat project.  Thanks!

Yeah. Using your mac as a lightswitch sounds like a really good idea. Want
me to send you plans for mac-as-doorstop?

8-)

--
Geoff, Sysop Equinox (equinox.gen.nz) +64 (3) 3854406 [4 Lines]
                               Voice: +64 (3) 3852101
        "Hi. You have just entered the fourth dimension. Small isn't it?"
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted,news.answers