Re: xtank-1.3f modification

TTK Ciar wrote:
> 
>   I don't know if anyone's reading this newsgroup at all, but I'm
> going to pretend to have a readership and post occasional progress
> reports.
> 
>   I've been through the xtank-1.3f source code, and aside from being
> ancient (simulating threads, for instance, with setjmp/longjmp ..
> wow, I haven't seen that since SunOS was considered hot stuff), it's
> pretty clean and easy to understand.

Please #ifdef liberally to keep the old code intact; It would be good
to insure the improvements stand a chance of working on the original
set of supported platforms (GoogleGroups search for "ATT SVR4 V2.1" in
this newsgroup)

> 
>   Aside from a little selective lobotomizing of the network-checking
> code, though, I'm leaving the sources of xtank itself alone, for now,
> while I develop some of the functionality I want as separate library
> code.  As it gets done, I'll see to adding it to xtank.  Right now I
> am concentrating on armor modelling and simulation, using "A Unified
> Model for Long-Rod Penetration in Multiple Metallic Plates" (Chocron,
> Anderson Jr, Walker, Ravid) as my guide.  I will expand the model to
> include containment/ceramic/backplate and reactive sandwich composite
> components, as best I can.
>

Wow!

 
>   At that point, I intend to stop armor/penetration modelling for a
> while and move on to the next area of enhancement (which I have not
> decided on).
> 
>   -- TTK

I'll stay tuned!

Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum