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diff --git a/systems/mac/support/excalibur/MacBALSA-README.txt b/systems/mac/support/excalibur/MacBALSA-README.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7c0a6c015c --- /dev/null +++ b/systems/mac/support/excalibur/MacBALSA-README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +MacBALSA was written by Marc H. Brown <mhb@ariba.com> as part of his +thesis work at Brown. This software is capable of performing very +sophisticated algorithm animations. The following article contains a +good description of the software. + + Marc H. Brown, "Exploring Algorithms Using Balsa-II", IEEE + Computer, May 1988, 14-36. + +The enclosed balsa-manual.pdf gives a less technical description of +the software. Please note that it contains Marc Brown's old address. +His current address is <mhb@ariba.com>. It also contains some +warnings against copying the software. Marc has assured me that it is +OK to copy the software. I hope to replace this manual with an +updated version that corrects these errors. + +It seems that MacBALSA was meant to accompany Sedgewick's Algorithms +book. + + Robert Sedgewick, "Algorithms", Addison-Wesley, second edition, + 1988, ISBN 0-201-06673-4. + +(There are variants called Algorithms in C, Algorithms in C++, and +Algorithms in Modula-3.) The algorithms are organized by chapter +number in this book. It also appears that MacBALSA was the source for +many of the figures in the text. + +This is version 1.0 of MacBALSA. I produced this version using +version Aleph 4 of the source code. It will run on a 68K or Power +Macintosh that has the Thread Manager installed. Most Macintoshes +produced within the past few years come with the Thread Manager +installed. + +Newer releases of the MacOS had rendered version Aleph 4 of MacBALSA +fairly unstable. In this version I have corrected all of the +stability problems that I could identify. I have fixed a number of +bugs. I also changed the software so that it uses threads when +running algorithms. Please let me know if you discover any problems. + +Rick Zaccone +zaccone@bucknell.edu +June 25, 1998 |