"The Tube" by David Alan Halls

[Massimo Dentico]

"Bill Halchin" <bhalchin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Massimo,
> 
>    You were right on your suggestion! I contacted David and he dug
> out Tube source. He emailed to his old boss for her  to decide if
> there are copyright issues.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill

Very well. Someone at the Tunes project could be interested to have
a look at the source. So, please, keep we informed.

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A little bit of context for the mailing list:

on comp.lang.scheme bhalchin@hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
>     David Alan Halls of Cambridge U. wrote a very nice PhD dissertation
> about a moble code system called The Tube that he designed and
> implemented. It is written mainly in Scheme. At one time, I had a
> copy of the source, but lost it. Does anybody know how I can obtain
> another copy? Is it lying in some Scheme archive? I already looked
> at Indiana U.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Bill Halchin

Private e-mails:

> > From: "Maxym" <maxym@galactica.it>
> > To: "Bill Halchin" <bhalchin@hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: "The Tube" by David Alan Halls
> > Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:44:04 +0100
> >
> > "Bill Halchin" <bhalchin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Massimo,
> > >
> > >    As for teh Tube source, my suggestion to you is to politely
> > > pressure the University of Cambridge to make the source available.
> > > I have already sent an email to the dept. head. Here  is their
> > > Web page:
> > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/UoCCL/contacts/
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Bill
> >
> > mmm .. I suggest to be a bit more specific in contacting
> > UoC. David A. Halls was a member of the Systems Research
> > Group (SRG)
> >
> >    - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/
> >
> > in particular the Opera Group
> >
> >    - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/opera/projects/index.html
> >
> > directed by Dr. Jean Bacon ( jmb@cl.cam.ac.uk ) and
> > Dr. Ken Moody ( km@cl.cam.ac.uk ).
> >
> > At the bottom of this page, as a past project, there is a link
> > to Halls' page (application mobility/Mobile Code)
> >
> >    - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/opera/projects/mobile_code.html
> >
> > Halls seems working at Citrix now, there is an e-mail address
> > also: david.halls@eu.citrix.com
> >
> > Probably is better to contact directly Halls and/or Dr. Bacon/Moody.
> > What do you think?
> >
> > [...]

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Best regards.

-- 
Massimo Dentico