Dear Reader,

Welcome as a user of the SICS Protocol Implementation Measurement
System, SPIMS. We hope that you will find it as useful as we have
found it in our research. The aim of distributing this research
prototype is to stimulate consistent protocol performance measurements
and to provide a tool for designing protocol benchmarks. We hope that
you also will contribute to the tool with new interfaces and report on
measurement results obtained. The more researchers that use the tool
the more interfaces will be developed and the more attractive it will
be for all of us.

THIS DISTRIBUTION IS FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. TeleLOGIC Uppsala
AB, a subsidiary of Swedish Telecom, distributes and supports a
version for commercial use. If you are in doubt about your status as a
non-commercial or commercial user, please contact spims@sics.se.  If
you are a commercial organization and want to use the research
prototype for non-commercial use, you need to get clearance from us
before you start to use the software.

SPIMS IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. THE SPIMS SOFTWARE IS COVERED BY
LICENSES, ONE FOR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND UNIVERSITIES AND ONE
FOR OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. THE LICENSES ARE FOUND IN THE DIRECTORY
LICENSES. THE USE OF SPIMS SOFTWARE REPRESENTS ACCEPTANCE
OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THE LICENSES.

SPIMS is copyrighted. Some parts of the software are derived from
other copyrighted software. See file COPYRIGHT.NOTICE.

When you logged into our distribution machine to retrieve SPIMS, your
network address was logged as well as your electronic address (i.e.
password). Within three months we will send you e-mail asking you to
sign the appropriate license or to destroy the SPIMS software. Also,
commercial organizations will also be required to pay the fee of
US$500.00 after these three months.

Included in the distribution are:

A. Source Code
1. SPIMS Unix version 2.0, date 1989-09-15, for
	SunOS 3.5/4.0
	DNIX
	Unix 4.3BSD
	Apollo DN3000/Unix 4.2BSD
	DEC MicroVAX II/Ultrix 2.0/3.0

2. Interfaces to protocols:
	DoD Internet Protocols: 
		UDP: SunOS 3.5/4., Unix 4.3BSD
		TCP: SunOS 3.5/4., Unix 4.3BSD, Apollo 4.2BSD, 
			Ultrix 2.0/3.0, DNIX
		FTP(ascii & binary): SunOS 3.5/4., Unix 4.3BSD, Apollo 
					4.2BSD, Ultrix 2.0/3.0, DNIX
		SunRPC: SunOS 3.5/4.
	ISODE 4.0
		FTAM: SunOS 3.5
		ROSE: SunOS 3.5
		TSAP: SunOS 3.5
	SunLink OSI 5.2
		TP4: SunOS 3.5
	VMTP: SunOS 4.

3. Demonstrations  and others
	DemoTool, Null Protocol

B. Documentation:
	- SICS Protocol Implementation Measurement System: User
	Manual. May 1989 SICS Technical Report T89011 (Only in
	PostScript format).
	- Reference list to published papers.
	- License agreements (Text files and PostScript files).


Installation

There is an installation guide in Appendix A of the User Manual.
Printing it is your first step and thereafter follow the instructions
in the manual. (If you do not have a PostScript printer you can order
a manual. For covering the mailing, a check of US$100.00 is required
with the order.) For your convience Appendix A and some introductory
material are also available as text files in the directory DOC/.

Bug-reports

Bug-reports will be collected as well as suggestions for fixes, but
SICS does nor guarantee that they will be included in any new release.
Report bugs to: spims-bug@sics.se

Exchange of experiences

We strongly encourage our users to share their experience and
additions to SPIMS, such as new protocol interfaces, so that we can
redistribute them. Such reports are collected in:
spims-reports@sics.se

Porting

If you would like to port the system to another machine or operating
system, there is a portability guide that can be requested.

Further development

- SICS will not further develop the research prototype. Only some
bug-fixes will be included in possible new releases.

- an interface to Program system SISCO/MMS/SunOS 3.5/4.

- a set of communication  benchmarks

- a commercial version of SPIMS is distributed by TeleLOGIC Uppsala
AB. If you are interested in that version, please contact:

	Claes Hojenberg
	TeleLOGIC Uppsala AB
	P.O. Box 1218
	S-751 42 Uppsala
	SWEDEN

	e-mail: claes@uplog.se, phone: +46-18-189400, telefax: +46-18-132039

For more information about the distribution, contact:

	Swedish Institute of Computer Science
	Birgitta Klingenberg
	P.O. Box 1263
	S-164 28 Kista
	SWEDEN

	e-address: spims@sics.se, Phone: +46 752 1500, Fax: +46 8 751 7230




