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From: g570907053ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000002645;0;80;142;)
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Subject: Re: ThingLab??
Keywords: Thinglab, MacII, APDA Smalltalk
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Date: 23 Sep 88 05:22:59 GMT
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The README file at  follows:

ThingLab is now in the public domain.  Feel free to copy the system and use
it as you wish.  Two versions are available: an old version of ThingLab
(pre-constraint hierarchies), and one with constraint hierarchies.  They
are available on internet on the machine june.cs.washington.edu.  To get
them, FTP to june and log in as ANONYMOUS password FOO.  Connect to the
subdirectory pub/thinglab (the full path to this directory is
/src/ftp/pub/thinglab).  Then retrieve either old-thinglab.tar.Z or
hierarchies.tar.Z.  These are both compressed Unix tar files, containing
the files to load into Smalltalk.  This note is in README in the same
directory.

Rob Duisberg's Animus system isn't available--it is still ensnarled by
Tektronix's legal department.

NB.  Both versions of ThingLab are now obsolete--at the University of
Washington we've decided that ThingLab had become too old, too large, and
too unmaintainable, and so we're starting afresh on work on constraint
systems in Smalltalk-80.  These versions are completely unsupported.  We
don't have the resources to provide help in using or debugging them, or in
providing copies of floppies or tapes.  Good luck!

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Too bad.  I'm quite curious about Animus now, too!  Anybody able to 
describe it or ThingLab in more detail?  


Ron Goldthwaite / UC Davis, Psychology and Animal Behavior
'Economics is a branch of ethics, pretending to be a science; 
 ethology is a science, pretending relevance to ethics.'