I trained bunch of 4 smalltalkers to push its life ahead. It was a great piece of work, looked slick on VW and according to the Tektronix guys, the engineers preferred it to the C++ version... they were being asked to use.. so it was being revived when I heard last in 2005. But Tektronix itself got bought over not much long after.. On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich@vmware.com> wrote:
Krish,
Haha, funny that you mention that ... I wrote that software, called ADS (for Analog IC Design System), while working at Tektronix. That was the project that I cut my Smalltalk teeth on:)
I started the project using the Tek 4404 in 1985.
When Tektronix got out of the Smalltalk business (another story) I ported ADS to ObjectWorks. I left Tektronix in 1992 to go to work for Digitalk.
The team at Tektronix kept working on ADS, porting it to the newer platforms over time ...
The last time I checked ADS was still being used ... that was around 2005, I think.
So it's had a long and productive lifetime.
Dale
----- Original Message ----- | From: "S Krish" <krishnamachari.sudhakar@gmail.com> | To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 5:55:28 AM | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Differential and Integral calculus in Pharo? | | | | Yes, I remember my love for Kirchoff's circuit laws years back..!!.. | | | Electronics: | | | | A matrix version of Kirchhoff's current law is the basis of most | circuit simulation software , such as SPICE / PSPICE. Interesting to | have a interface to PSPICE as Tektronix had/ may still have in VW. | Build it out of Pharo, we could have the challenge to Cadence..with | their C++ ecquivalent.. | | | Had an opportunity to see that VW stuff with its simulation of VLSI | circuits running up 60000 elements.. and complex simulations.. real | time. Cool stuff.. | | | | On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Clara Allende < | clari.allende@gmail.com > wrote: | | | Hi guys, after having exhausting four months of Physics lessons, I | decided that would be fun to write a program to deal with | Electricity problems :) (Yeah, I'm not a normal person :P) | | | So, I need to make differential and integral calculus, are there any | libraries to do so? Or any place that I can take a look at? | | | Thanks in advance! | | | Cheers |