Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!swarren
From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Scientific programs on Amiga
Message-ID: <106983@convex.convex.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 14:12:57 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.141109.4974@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990Oct5.160718.6389@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <SDL.90Oct8153631@lyra.linus.mitre.org>
Sender: usenet@convex.com
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx.
Lines: 30

In article <SDL.90Oct8153631@lyra.linus.mitre.org> sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) writes:
         [...discussion of simulation on Macs deleted...]
>On the Amiga, you could do something even nicer:  If the simulation
>executive had an AREXX port, it could output a stream of simulation events
>via the AREXX port to any other Amiga application that also had an
>AREXX port.  This would enable you to interface a variety of
>AREXX-capable "back-ends" to the simulation executive:
                            [...]

Absolutely.  In addition to the "visualization" aspect, you could also do
interesting things with dynamic systems which require different types of
simulators for components of the system.  You could run multiple simulations
time-synchronised, and use AREXX as the interface between the components
of the simulation.

Example:  A flight simulating system in which one simulator produces new
          terrain and weather patterns, and a second simulator "flies"
          within this world.

Of course this could be accomplished within the same piece of software,
but there are times when you want the components seperate; for example,
when developing the software for a guidance system, you don't want the
"world simulator" that you use in development imbedded in your guidance
code.

--
            _.
--Steve   ._||__      DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own.
  Warren   v\ *|     ----------------------------------------------
             V       {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.COM