Appendix D. Downloading Spin

 

“On two occasions I have been asked, ’Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

 
 --(Charles Babbage, 1792–1871)

SPIN can be run on most systems, including most flavors of UNIX and Windows PCs. The only strict requirement is the availability of a standard, ANSI compatible, C preprocessor and compiler. If these programs are not already installed on your system, good quality public domain versions can be readily found on the Web. A recommended source for these tool, plus a host of other UNIX applications, is

http://www.cygwin.com

Instructions for installing SPIN, documentation, ...

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