Is SLAM II Compiler available for coding

I took the SLAM II language Simulation class back in 1992.

I was wondering if you would happen to have a SLAM II compiler available online or in an executable file.

I would like to do some coding per the old Pritsker textbooks and see if my code works. Thank you in advance.

Brian

[Walter Roberson]

This is not a MATLAB-related question.

[Brian]

MATHWORKS purchased SLAM II. Where can I get answers on this?

[Walter Roberson]

I cannot seem to find any historical information supporting the idea that Mathworks purchased SLAM II. For example I was unable to locate references to SLAM on the Mathworks site using Internet Archive :"Wayback Machine"

[Walter Roberson]

SLAM II was created by Pritsker and Associates, which merged with FACTROL in 1989 to form Pritsker Corporation. In 1997, Symix Systems, Inc., bought Pritsker Corporation. In turn Symix merged with Mapics, Inc. in 2002, using the Mapics name. Mapics merged with Infor Global Solutions in 2005. Infor continues until now.

I do not see any opportunity in this timeline for Mathworks to have purcased SLAM II ?

[Brian]

Thank you Walter. I will check with Infor Global Systems for a compiler.

[Walter Roberson]

By the way, I find evidence of SLAM being a going concern at the time of the merger with Mapics, but as yet I have not found evidence of it continuing with Mapics. I might not have looked in the right place yet, or perhaps it got renamed.

[Surendar]

I was a user in the early 90s, but the bigwigs cancelled the whole project. My immediate manager was a fan of SLAM II and so we often talked about it. I did manage to get in touch with a SLAM developer around 2010 (he had moved on to univ administration by then) and he pretty much told me the story above and that even at Symix there was not that much interest in "analysis" as he put it and so SLAM was put in the back shelf.

What is interesting to me is your comment that it was still used at the time of the merger with MAPICS. I guess you were able to trace the patch of SLAM post Pritsker Corporation. My recent seraches regarding its migration do not turn up many hits.

[Brian]

Thank you Surendar. Do you happen to have a virtual compiler that can run SLAM II on iMAC 10.12.6 ?

[Surendar]

Brain, Unfortuantely, no. I myself ran the command line version on a Sun workstation. My manager liked the GUI version on the PC. I eventually lost the Sun (another bigwig policy!) and with it went my copy of the software. My former manager passed way a few years back. But, I doubt even if he did have the floppy discs, and we could read them, the GUI would not have worked -- it was Windows 3.1 time then!! And, definitely, not on a Mac.

Sorry to disappoint you. But, can you use some other software?

One other thing. As I pursued my effort to track down SLAM's journey, I was led to Bernard Engel at Purdue. On his website, I found that one of his classes involves the use of SLAM. I am not sure if any of it is current. I have written to him about it. You can find the page I am talking about at

https://engineering.purdue.edu/~engelb/abe565/565.htm

Go down to weeks 13, 14 and 15.

All the best in your efforts. It was very neat software, at least back then.

[Walter Roberson]

@Surendar

If I recall correctly, I found a couple of papers involving SLAM II dating close to the time of Mapics, but nothing after Mapics.

[Brian]

@Surandar

Thank you for this knowledge! Much appreciated

[Surendar]

Walter, You are right. I did not pay attention to the M&A dates. As you say, Symix (aka Frontstep) merged with MAPICs in 2002. And there are papers in that timeframe from Frontstep.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1030453.1030723

I actually met Jean O'Reilly when my old manager and I went down to Indianapolis to talk about our particular application. And, coauthor Kenneth Musselman rings a bell. I think he is the one I exchanged mail with around 2010. He'd become a dean or something like that by then.

Anyway, it is all way old history and far, far away from MatLab!!!

Good luck in your hunt, Brian.

So long!!!