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ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 Ada (tm) Software Repository (ASR) Newsletter Issue 3, June 1986 Richard Conn, Newsletter Editor Published by Echelon, Inc. THIS ISSUE Page I. THE ADA SOFTWARE REPOSITORY 1 A. Who is Using the ASR? B. The Magnitude of the ASR II. GENERAL INFORMATION 4 A. Some Feedback on the Usage of the Army's ALS B. Standardization at AFIT C. Acquiring DDN Users Guides III. NEWS ITEMS CONCERNING THE ADA SOFTWARE REPOSITORY 7 A. Capacity Data B. Third Snapshot of the ASR C. Hardcopy Documentation from Echelon D. Talks on the ASR E. Access to the ASR from Europe F. Air Force Ada Course and the ASR IV. NEW SUBMISSIONS IN MAY 8 V. HIGHLIGHTS OF SELECTED SUBMISSIONS 8 ============================================================================== I. THE ADA SOFTWARE REPOSITORY A. WHO IS USING THE ASR? It is virtually impossible to determine the full extent of the ASR user community, but the ADA-SW electronic mailing list provides a starting point. There are now over 260 subscription entries in the ADA-SW email list. Some entries are for individuals ... other entries are for electronic bulletin boards and subordinate electronic mailing lists. With the redistribution that is taking place within this community, the distribution through the tape copy service, and the activities of other interest groups such as Ada Europe, the Defense Data Network (DDN)-based community probably represents the tip of the iceburg. I have a policy of not allowing people to see the ADA-SW email list file. I feel that such disclosure could result in a violation of the privacy of the subscribers and, for those who know how to access the Network Information Center of the DDN, this information could be used for commercial gain. However, I do not object to simply naming the organizations listed in this file. This report lists many of the organizations that have at least one subscriber named in the ADA-SW email list. This report is not comprehensive (I did not recognize several acronyms), and it covers the entire list, including those subscribers on the DDN, BITNET, USENET, and CSNET. The following listing is divided into three categories: (1) military organizations, research labs, and other government agencies, (2) corporations, and (3) educational institutions. An asterisk (*) indicates that a subscription entry is to an electronic bulletin board or subordinate electronic mailing list. Page 1 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS, RESEARCH LABS, and OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Aberdeen Proving Ground Ada Joint Program Office and AJPO-Sponsored Individuals (> 20) Air Force Systems Command Argonne National Lab Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center Army Research and Development Center Army Research Institute Ballistic Research Lab (US Army) David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center Defense Communications Agency Eglin Air Force Base, Gunter Air Force Base Lawrence Livermore Labs *NASA Ames Research Center NASA Jet Propulstion Lab National Bureau of Standards Naval Air Development Center Naval Electronics Systems Command Naval Oceans Systems Center Naval Personnel Research and Development Center Naval Underwater Systems Center Naval Weapons Center Rome Air Development Center SANDIA National Labs Software Engineering Institute *Stanford Research Institute White Sands Missile Range Wright-Patterson Air Force Base CORPORATIONS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Aerospace Corporation, The Air Force Institute of Technology ALCOA California Institute of Technology American Telephone and Telegraph Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Thought Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgia Tech Digital Equipment Corporation *Massachusetts Institute of Ford Aerospace Technology General Electric New York University Hewlett-Packard Pennsylvania State University *Honeywell Princeton University International Business Machines Rutgers, The State University MITRE Southern Methodist University Softech Stanford University *Sperry United States Naval Academy *Tartan Labs Univ of California, Berkeley Tektronix Univ of California, Irvine *Telesoft Univ of California, San Diego *Texas Instruments *Univ of Connecticut Tolerant Computers *Univ of Delaware TRW Univ of Houston, Clear Lake Verdix Univ of Maryland XEROX *Univ of Massachusetts *Univ of Southern California Univ of Texas Univ of Wisconsin Page 2 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 B. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE ASR. This information is extracted from SNAP03.DOC, the latest SNAPSHOT taken of the ASR on 5 June 86 (see article in section III). ----------------------------------------------------------- | The Size of the Ada Software Repository | | 25,560,502 bytes of source code (over 97% in Ada) | | 10,491,622 bytes of documentation | | ========== | | 36,052,124 bytes | ----------------------------------------------------------- Subdirectory Size of Code Size of Documentation Name (bytes) (bytes) -------------- ------------ --------------------- ADA-SQL 1,117,750 248,404 AI 250,984 320,107 ANSI-LRM 0 1,201,050 BENCHMARKS 302,163 56,750 CAIS 1,719,047 10,742 CAIS-TOOLS 152,675 7,140 COMPILATION-ORDER 359,990 86,428 COMPONENTS 2,014,771 134,956 CROSS-REFERENCE 23,786 4,457 DBMS 81,285 5,314 DDN 1,959,099 135,474 DEBUGGER 889,057 512,159 EDITORS 1,615,008 219,584 EDUCATION 0 259,690 EXTERNAL-TOOLS (no Ada) 92,404 47,265 FORMGEN 318,402 152,458 GENERAL 0 328,182 GKS 1,991,575 273,777 MANAGEMENT-TOOLS 1,347,705 643,121 MATH 953,284 1,559,212 MENU 453,562 297,293 MESSAGE-HANDLING 977,501 222,916 METRICS 1,390,255 289,293 NEWS 0 64,206 NOSC-TOOLS 0 156 ONLINE-DOC 63,360 171,021 PAGER 98,377 28,338 PDL 1,382,728 898,199 POINTERS 0 143,250 PRETTY-PRINTERS 1,037,841 99,222 SIMULATION 337,803 170,261 SPELLER 893,957 466,092 STARTER-KIT 0 522 STUBBER 81,309 5,754 STYLE 2,021,624 212,703 TOOLS 1,320,403 395,771 VIRTERM 312,797 642,761 WIS-ADA-TOOLS 0 177,594 ========== ========== Totals => 25,560,502 10,491,622 Page 3 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 ============================================================================== II. GENERAL INFORMATION A. SOME FEEDBACK ON THE USAGE OF THE ARMY'S ALS. On May 29, 1986, Jerry Brookshire (JBROOKSHIRE@USC-ISIF.ARPA) posted the following message to INFO- ADA. I feel this message is of general interest. Jerry's message (with minor editing): "I recently sent an enquiry to this list about status/experience/use of the Army Ada Language System (ALS), and promised to summarize the results, if any. Well, the results are fairly sparse, but may themselves prompt more response, so here they are: "1. Reply-To: "CALLAND" <calland@nosc-tecr> "I believe the Army is in the process of winding down the ALS program. I have been told the Army cancelled it about 6 wks ago, then changed their minds, and now is investigating the costs of contract cancellation and having a tiger team study the situation simultaneously. "The Navy is basing its Ada development on the ALS - this program is called ALS/N. The project engineer is Bill Wilder of the Naval Sea Systems Command, PMS 408. I believe his net address is WILDER@NUSC-NPT. His phone number is 202 692 8204. The target computers are the AN/AYK-14, AN/UYK-43, and AN/UYK-44. "2. From: larry@Jpl-VLSI.ARPA "I attended the most recent ALS users group. The general consensus seemed to be that the current version 2.something is a major improvement over version 1.0, but that a fair amount of work still needs to be done before it's really production quality. One of the problems is the runtime module that lets you execute outside the ALS environment, an important consideration if you want to distribute SW to non-ALS systems. Another is the enormous resources used by the ALS. You pretty much have to have a VAX dedicated to the ALS. "As for targets, the only one they officially support is to bare Intel 8086/8, using (as I recall--don't have documentation here) the Intel MDS as an intermediary. "Who's using it? Not very many people, apparently. I'm providing help to two DoD prjects, one USAF and one Army. Both have the ALS, but have bought the DEC Ada compiler and are using it for their real work. When they complete the baseline systems, they will then convert it to the ALS and deliver that. I've talked to people who are doing something similar using the Verdix system. "Eventually the ALS will be a very nice system. They're closer to having a full Stoneman CAIS than the commercial people, but they also need to develop more optimized compiler and run-time system. They also need to develop hooks to off-the-shelf SW such as DBMSs, graphics packages, and the like. "3. From: prindle@NADC "The ALS is currently being used as the baseline for the Navy ALS/N, a substantial retargeting effort intended to support Ada applications running on one of the three Navy standard computer architectures, the AN/UYK-44, the AN/UYK-43, and the AN/AYK-14. In addition to straightforward retargeting of the compiler, both the Programming Support Environment and the Run-Time Environment are being customized to specific Navy tactical embedded systems requirements; nonetheless, the ALS compiler front end (Machine-Independent) section and the MAPSE are to be used with only minor modifications. The major modifications are in the compiler back-end (code generator), the run-time Page 4 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 support, and the addition of tools and capabilities not currently supported by ALS. The ALS/N, in turn, will become the Navy's principal High-Order-Language for development of tactical embedded applications, thereby replacing CMS-2. "4. From: Rob Spray <rob%ct.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> "There was an article on the ALS in the May 1986 issue of The DEC Professional written by Dennis Turner who is "chief of Software Technology Development Division within the Center for Tactical Computer Systems, Fort Monmouth". "On p122 he states: "The ALS is currently hosted on the VAX-11/780 with the VMS operating system. The version of the compiler that is targeted to the host was validated by the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) in December 1984. Continuing development activities will produce targets for the Intel iAPX286 and a "bare" (no resident operating system) VAX. Plans are also underway to retarget the ALS to the Motorola 68000 family." "A footnote states: "Request for copies of the Ada Language System, documentation or any of the Ada or ALS training material developed at CECOM should be directed to: Commander, U.S. Army CECOM ATTN: AMSEL-TCS-ADA Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5204" "Couple of rumors: "1) Heard at a SIGAda conference that any Govt contractor could get an free evaluation copy of the ALS "2) A local site reports that the ALS performance is getting better." B. STANDARDIZATION AT AFIT. In my recent visit to the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), it was quite interesting to note the variety of outstanding computer resources available and the degree to which AFIT has standardized on software. Hardware resources include several VAXen, an ELXSI (a 64-bit ECL processor), DUAL workstations, SUN workstations, and many other systems (with two HYPERCUBEs and several more SUNs about to be acquired). Many of these systems are interconnected via a local area network and an interface to the Defense Data Network is available. Areas of software standardization include: (1) TCP/IP and UUCP as common communications protocols, (2) 4.2 BSD UNIX as the common operating system, (3) EMACS as the common editor, and (4) Ada (which is taught to incoming graduate students in lieu of other languages) as the common computer language. C. ACQUIRING DDN USERS GUIDES. Five guides for users of the Defense Data Network are available from the DDN Network Information Center (NIC) and the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Details on the content of these guides and how to acquire these guides (extracted from the NIC) are presented. These guides are: (1) the DDN New User Guide, (2) the TAC Users' Guide, (3) the DDN Directory, (4) the Defense Data Network Brochure, and (5) Logical and Geographic Maps of ARPANET and MILNET. 1. DDN NEW USER GUIDE. This is a "how-to" guide to the DDN for network users, including use of network tools, such as electronic mail and file transfer. DDN NIC, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA NIC 50001, December 1985 Price: $10.00 domestic, $13.00 foreign. DTIC: [AD-A166 368] 2. TAC USERS' GUIDE. This is a guide to using the Terminal Access Controller (TAC), including TAC commands and features. Page 5 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Report No. 4780, October 1982 Price: $10.00 domestic, $13.00 foreign. DTIC: [AD-A147 366] 3. DDN DIRECTORY. This is a directory of users and hosts on the DDN including the name, network mailbox, US mail address and telephone number for each registered network user. DDN NIC, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA NIC 50000, June 1984. Price: $10.00 domestic, $13.00 foreign. DTIC: [AD-A148 213] 4. DEFENSE DATA NETWORK BROCHURE. This is an overview of the DDN, focusing on its origin, technology, performance, interface and subscriber costs. Defense Communications Agency Price: No charge 5. LOGICAL and GEOGRAPHIC MAPS of MILNET and ARPANET. These are maps of MILNET and ARPANET geographic locations and logical connections. Price: No charge. -- ORDERING INFORMATION -- To Order: DCA CIRCULARS/DTIC. Military personnel may obtain many of these documents as DCA Circulars or from the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Refer to the document descriptions for DTIC numbers. DTIC's address and telephone number is: Defense Technical Information Center Cameron Station Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 274-7633 To Order: NIC. Send a check, money order or purchase order for the total amount of the order in US dollars, made payable to SRI International. Cash payments or charge cards are not accepted. For all orders, please include your full name, US mailing address with zip code, telephone number and network mailbox (if available) and send to: DDN Network Information Center SRI International, Room EJ291 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 (800) 235-3155 or (415) 859-3695 Send online requests for an order form to NIC@SRI-NIC.ARPA, or call the NIC at one of the above telephone numbers. -- SHIPPING INFORMATION -- DOMESTIC: Our prices include postage. We ship via 4th class mail. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. OVERSEAS: Overseas orders are shipped via "surface printed matter". SPECIAL: Orders will be shipped via Federal Express or UPS by special arrangement only. If you want your order to be shipped via either of these methods, please request a document order form from the NIC. Page 6 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 ============================================================================== III. NEWS ITEMS CONCERNING THE ADA SOFTWARE REPOSITORY A. CAPACITY DATA. The Ada Software Repository resides on the SIMTEL20 host computer at White Sands Missile Range on a space-available basis. The disk on which the ASR resides is funded by the Logistics System Support Activity (LSSA), an organization within the Army Materiel Command. See ASR Newsletter 1 for further details. It is of interest to track the total utilization of the LSSA-funded disk (PD:) on which the ASR resides. This disk, which holds the ASR and eight other software repositories, is currently at 74% utilization. B. THE THIRD SNAPSHOT OF THE ASR. SNAP03.DOC, the third snapshot of the ASR, is now in the GENERAL subdirectory (PD:<ADA.GENERAL>). This snapshot contains the information in the "Magnitude of the ASR" article in this issue of the ASR Newsletter as well as descriptions of the contents of each subdirectory. These snapshots provide an interesting history of the growth of the ASR. Source Code Documentation Snapshot Date (bytes) (bytes) -------- --------- ----------- ------------- ASR Formed 25 Nov 84 0 0 SNAP01 19 Sep 85 12,834,956 4,931,284 SNAP02 10 Feb 86 19,542,458 6,366,629 SNAP03 5 Jun 86 25,560,502 10,491,622 C. HARDCOPY DOCUMENTATION FROM ECHELON. The Master Index to the ASR is now being prepared and should be available from Echelon in July or August. This is a minor slip from the original plan, which called for availability of this document by 1 July 86. There will be a cost associated with this document; contact Echelon in July for details. D. TALKS ON THE ASR. In light of the success and popularity of the previous presentations on the ASR, more talks on the ASR are now being scheduled. Details will be announced in this newsletter as they are finalized. The presentation lasts for about 1 hour and is packed with useful information on the ASR and the DDN. Information tailored to the host organization and additional consultation with people at the host organization (as time permits) is included. There is no charge for this presentation other than (possibly) travel expenses. The last series of talks was made at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It included a presentation at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and consultations at AFIT, the Jovial/Ada Language Control Facility (JALCF), and the Air Force Wright Aeronautical Labs (AFWAL). E. ACCESS TO THE ASR FROM EUROPE. The ASR is now available online at the Stockholm Computing Center (QZ) in Sweden. Tapes are being shipped to members of the Ada Europe organization. Points of contact: Mats Ohlin (Mats_Ohlin_FOA2%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA) or Else-Karin Boestad-Nilsson Ada in Sweden Secreteriat c/o Swedish National Defense Research Institute Box 27 322 S-102 54 Stockholm, Sweden Else-Karin Boestad-Nilsson is secretary in AiS as well as editor for the Ada Europe Newsletter. F. AIR FORCE ADA COURSE AND THE ASR. The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) has developed a short course on Ada which includes a section on the Ada Software Repository. This course will soon be open to personnel at Page 7 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and AFIT plans to make this course available Air Force wide. Contact: Lt Col Harold Carter, PhD AFIT/ENG, Bldg 640 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433 513/255-6913 hcarter@AFIT-AB -- electronic mail is preferred ============================================================================== IV. NEW SUBMISSIONS IN MAY May 86 was a slow month for the ASR, and it included a two-week absense on my part due to travel. This in no way indicates a slack in the submissions. I am aware of many new submissions now being prepared; at least five of them will be reported in the next ASR newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. PROGERRS Files and Sizes (in Bytes): PD:<ADA.EDUCATION> PROGERRS.DOC 75861 John Goodenough of the Wang Institute has submitted a new PROGERRS.DOC file, outlining common Ada programming errors. ============================================================================== V. HIGHLIGHTS OF SELECTED SUBMISSIONS The Math Library in the Ada Software Repository contains implementations in Ada of a variety of useful math routines. The following Ada code fragments are parts of the package specifications of four submissions in PD:<ADA.MATH>: (1) BIT.ADA (Bit Manipulation Routines), (2) GSET.ADA (Generic Set Routines), (3) MATRIX.ADA (Matrix Manipulation Routines), and (4) MLIBDEC.ADA (Trig, Log, Exponential, etc, Routines). The package bodies implement the indicated functions in Ada. 1. From BIT.ADA -- function BIT_EXTRACT (ITEM, START_AT, NBITS : INTEGER) return INTEGER; -- Return the bit field extracted from ITEM, as a signed integer; function UBIT_EXTRACT (ITEM, START_AT, NBITS : INTEGER) return INTEGER; -- return the bit field extracted from ITEM, unsigned integer; function BIT_INSERT (THIS_ITEM, NBITS, INTO_ITEM, START_AT : INTEGER) return INTEGER; -- insert NBITS from THIS_ITEM into the object INTO_ITEM, -- with the rightmost bit identified by START_AT. function BIT_REMOVE (ITEM, START_AT, NBITS : INTEGER) return INTEGER; -- BIT_REMOVE will zero out NBITS of ITEM at position START_AT function SHIFT_LEFT (ITEM, NBITS : INTEGER) return INTEGER; -- return ITEM shifted left by NBITS function SHIFT_RIGHT (ITEM, NBITS : INTEGER) return INTEGER; Page 8 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 -- return ITEM shifted right by NBITS function BIT_AND (WORD1, WORD2 : INTEGER) return INTEGER; -- return the AND of the two objects function BIT_OR (WORD1, WORD2 : INTEGER) return INTEGER; -- return the OR of the two objects function BIT_MASK (NBITS : INTEGER) return INTEGER; -- return an object with NBITS of one bits, right justified 2. From GSET.ADA -- FUNCTION "*" (Set_1 : Set; Set_2 : Set) RETURN Set; FUNCTION "+" (Element : Universe; Set_1 : Set) RETURN Set; FUNCTION "+" (Set_1 : Set; Set_2 : Set) RETURN Set; FUNCTION "+" (Set_1 : Set; Element : Universe) RETURN Set; FUNCTION "-" (Set_1 : Set; Set_2 : Set) RETURN Set; FUNCTION "-" (Set_1 : Set; Element : Universe) RETURN Set; FUNCTION "<" (Set_1 : Set; Set_2 : Set) RETURN Boolean; FUNCTION "<=" (Set_1 : Set; Set_2 : Set) RETURN Boolean; FUNCTION Is_A_Member (Element : Universe; Of_Set : Set) RETURN Boolean; FUNCTION Is_Empty (Set_1 : Set) RETURN Boolean; SUBTYPE Number IS Integer RANGE 0 .. (Universe'Pos (Universe'Last) - Universe'Pos (Universe'First) + 1); FUNCTION Number_In (Set_1 : Set) RETURN Number; 3. From MATRIX.ADA -- type VECTOR is array(INTEGER range<>) of FLOAT ; type MATRIX is array(INTEGER range<>,INTEGER range <>) of FLOAT; INCOMPARABLE_DIMENSION :exception; -- the dimension of matrices -- or vectors to be operated are -- incomparable SINGULAR : exception; -- matrix to be inverted is singular function TRANSPOSE(A : MATRIX) return MATRIX ; -- transpose of matrix function TRANSPOSE(A : VECTOR) return VECTOR ; -- transpose of vector function "+" (A : VECTOR; B : VECTOR) return VECTOR ; -- sum of vector function "+" (A : MATRIX; B : MATRIX) return MATRIX ; -- sum of matrix function "-" (A : VECTOR; B : VECTOR) return VECTOR ; -- difference of vector function "-" (A : MATRIX; B : MATRIX) return MATRIX ; -- difference of matrix function "*" (A : FLOAT; B : VECTOR) return VECTOR ; -- scalar, vector multiplication function "*" (A : VECTOR; B : FLOAT) return VECTOR ; -- vector, scalar multiplication function "*" (A : VECTOR; B : VECTOR) return FLOAT ; -- inner(dot) product of two vectors function "*" (A : MATRIX; B : VECTOR) return VECTOR ; -- matrix,column vector multiplication Page 9 ASR Newsletter, Issue 3, June 1986 function "*" (A : VECTOR; B : MATRIX) return VECTOR ; -- row vector,matrix multiplication function "*" (A : FLOAT; B : MATRIX) return MATRIX ; -- scalar, matrix multiplication function "*" (A : MATRIX; B : FLOAT) return MATRIX ; -- matrix, scalar multiplication function "*" (A : MATRIX; B : MATRIX) return MATRIX ; -- matrix, matrix multiplication function "**"(A : MATRIX; P : INTEGER) return MATRIX; -- square matrix raised to integer -- power 4. From MLIBDEC.ADA -- function SQRT(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function CBRT(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function LOG(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function LOG10(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function EXP(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function "**"(X, Y : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function SIN(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function COS(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function TAN(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function COT(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function ASIN(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function ACOS(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function ATAN(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function ATAN2(V, U : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function SINH(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function COSH(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; function TANH(X : FLOAT) return FLOAT; ============================================================================== Ada is a registered trademark, U.S. Government - Ada Joint Program Office. The following are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation: DEC, DECSYSTEM-20, ULTRIX, VAX, VMS. UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. The following are trademarks of Data General Corporation: AOS, ROLM. Verdix is a trademark of Verdix Corporation. The Ada Software Repository Newsletter is Copyright 1986 Echelon, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Permission to reprint, wholly or partially, is automatically granted if source credit is given to Echelon. Echelon, Inc. 885 N. San Antonio Road Los Altos, CA 94022 USA Telephone: 415/948-3820 Page 10