CAM8 Software Distribution
8/22/96
This is the software distribution for the CAM8 Supercomputer
manufactured by STEP Research Inc. All the source code and binaries
contained herein are freely available to all. STEP Research
Inc. maintains all rights to original code, concepts and work. You
may modify and redistribute this software provided you maintain all
credits and copyright notices, including this document. You may not
sell or otherwise derive a profit from this software. STEP Research
provides no warranties, implied or explicit, for the correctness or
soundness of this software as far as liabilities for any loss incured
by the user of this software. Any improvements to this software MUST
be provided to STEP Research so that they may be included in future
releases of the software. You may provide credits, copyright notices
and distribution restrictions for any improvements you make and we
will included and maintain these documents in future releases of the
software. You may use the sorce code provided as a means of
instruction or tutorial for the purposes of developing your own
separate applications with no restrictions.
The distribution consists of one large compressed tar file:
CAM8dist-8_22_96.tar.Z
We wish to keep this software a freely available as possible while
still maintaining control over its content and design. We have used a
number of freely available utilities to keep the amount of code we
actually "own" to a minimum. These include:
tcl7.3/tk3.6 - The ever popular scripting and Motif widget package
FSBox - A TCL/TK file selection widget.
pbmplus - A collection of generic image formats and conversion
utilities
xv - Graphic file viewer
It is likely that we will continue to add to this list in future
releases.
The rest of the software is code developed by us and includes:
devdri - The CAM8 device driver for controlling the SBus
interface card and CAM8
step - The CAM8 "operating system" implemented as
extentions to a Forth interpreter
CAMlib - A library of C routines which currently provide
low-level support for step but will eventually be
the basis for the replacement to step
cam8sim - The Sun Sparc based cam8 simulator (works in
conjunction with step)
campat - A script based pattern generator
ppmtools - Programs for converting between CAM8 pattern files
and ppm files
cam8utils - Various utilities