On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Oyvind Teig wrote: > Peter and Jeremy > > I sit here, in industry, without any FDR or FDR2 and read your very > interesting letters, pushing state of the art of Java CSP ahead. > Thanks for sharing these things! > > There is a problem in getting this technology over to industry: > FDR is too expensive! > > I want to learn from this as well! I know FSP is virtually free: > http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/concurrency/ > > o Could FSP and LTSA have done the job for you, or is it > only a "toy" compared to FDR2? It is probably a toy compared with FDR but that doesn't mean it couldn't have done the job. > > If it could, I could have tried your models! Wonder! No kidding, > FDR pricing is a serious obstacle to this techique and I want to > ride! FDR doesn't even run on MS-Windows! I think that the FDR price is very reasonable. It would only need to save you a couple of man-months work to completely pay for itself. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr J. M. R. Martin Oxford Supercomputing Centre Tel: (01865) 273849 Wolfson Building Fax: (01865) 273839 Parks Road Email: jeremy.martin@comlab.ox.ac.uk Oxford OX1 3QD WWW: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jeremy