Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Yes, it is my recollection that ODE2 replaced ODE.
>
> The various files mentioned date back to DOE Macsyma
> and should be somewhere.
But it seems that some files (not necessarily from the ODE package)
were missing already at the time of the DOE-Macsyma fork and they were
never recovered. Here is a comment from declin.mac:
/* don't have this file in DOE-MACSYMA
EVAL_WHEN(LOADFILE,
IF GET('GNAUTO,'VERSION)=FALSE
THEN LOAD(['GNAUTO,'FASL,'DSK,'DGVAL]))$
*/
In this case, I think that the missing file is the same which is
called `genut' in other places (and for which we do have a
reconstruction). Now, a comment in rncomb.mac states
/*ASB;RNCOMB 2
12:32pm Friday, 14 January 1983
Created.
12:00pm Saturday, 15 January 1983
At JPG's suggestion, removed dependence on GENUT by bringing in copies of
PREDPARTITION and RLOIEWL.
10:02am Sunday, 16 January 1983
LCM name changed to LCM_L to avoid name conflict with LCM in SHARE;FUNCTS >
*/
So I get the impression that the whole system was still very much in
flux at the time of the fork. In this case it seems that genut was
part of the DIAGEVAL tensor package which was not meant to become part
of DOE-Macsyma (for whatever reason) but the omission of those parts
of genut on which other files in DOE-Macsyma depended was accidental.
Similar things might have happened for other parts of the system (in
the case of ODE we do have diffequations/abel.mac and
maxima/archive/share/unknown/series.usg, by the way)
Is this a likely picture of what happened at that time (I have no idea
of the `material' circumstances under which all this happened)?
Since Stavros identified ASB (mentioned in the comment above) as Rick
Brenner, we could also ask him, I guess.
Wolfgang