Hi!
There have been some inquiries recently about the System Generation sublist.
I would like to recount a little history. In early 1988, a USENET discussion
on system generation spawned a short-lived mailing list called the Universal
Simulation Mailing List (USML). I was one of the co-originators of the
discussion. The USML was an indirect ancestor of the Trav System Generation
sublist; some of the members were the same. The Sysgen sublist also died out.
All of the USML archives are still on line and available via anonymous FTP.
There are some interesting discussions there, and also some programs. These
archives, obviously, do not include the stuff related to the Sysgen sublist.
I don't know where/if that stuff is kept. The USML archive is on a machine
called topgun.agps.lanl.gov. Here is a listing of what was there last week.
cd pub/usml
ls -l
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 25957 Sep 14 1988 Actual
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 107641 Jul 28 1989 Archive
drwxr-xr-x 2 -2 512 Nov 16 1988 Digests
drwxr-xr-x 2 -2 512 Aug 23 1989 List
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 41639 Sep 8 1988 OtherSun.src
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 109856 Sep 15 1988 Psychohistory
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 3731 Nov 17 1988 README
drwxr-xr-x 2 -2 512 Sep 23 1988 Universe
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 54294 Sep 15 1988 accrete.c
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 49459 Sep 19 1988 accretion.amiga
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 67778 Sep 10 1988 accretion.src
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 176121 Jan 18 1989 archive
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 169887 Jul 27 1989 cellsim_1.5.tar.Z
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 5334 Sep 8 1988 fractal.c
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 29897 Sep 20 1988 plates.c
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 10495 Sep 21 1988 references
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 30148 Sep 14 1988 shebs
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 39275 Sep 22 1988 siod.c
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 58063 Jan 11 1989 starcul.shar
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 75683 Nov 16 1988 starform
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 60385 Sep 8 1988 system.arc
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 65536 Jan 28 1989 traveller.tar
- - -rw-r--r-- 1 -2 761043 Sep 16 1988 xc5.1-tar.Z
Get the README file. I recommend starform, an excellent true-astrophysics
system generation program by Matt Burdick.
Enjoy!
- - - Dave Allen: [email removed], Viewlogic Systems, Marlboro, Mass