<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBook HTML 1.0//EN">
<HTML
><HEAD
><TITLE
>Description</TITLE
><META
NAME="GENERATOR"
CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet"><LINK
REL="HOME"
TITLE="GNOME Turing Machine simulator user guide."
HREF="index.html"><LINK
REL="PREVIOUS"
TITLE="GNOME Turing Machine simulator user guide."
HREF="index.html"><LINK
REL="NEXT"
TITLE="The Display"
HREF="display.html"></HEAD
><BODY
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
TEXT="#000000"
LINK="#0000FF"
VLINK="#840084"
ALINK="#0000FF"
><DIV
CLASS="NAVHEADER"
><TABLE
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TH
COLSPAN="3"
ALIGN="center"
>GNOME Turing Machine simulator user guide.</TH
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="index.html"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="80%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="bottom"
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="display.html"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="CHAPTER"
><H1
><A
NAME="DESCRIPTION"
>Description</A
></H1
><P
>	 A very simple Turing Machine simulator. If you want to know more about
	 Turing Machines, check this
	 <A
HREF="http://obiwan.uvi.edu/computing/turing/ture.htm"
TARGET="_top"
>Turing Machine
	 Introduction</A
>.
	</P
><P
>	 This is a very intuitive program. It has four main buttons for resetting,
	 stopping, playing and playing the machine by steps. When a program is
	 load into the simulator, the user is given with indications of the format
	 of the tape for that specific program, and it is possible to launch a
	 States Viewer to see, and even debug, any program that is ran. A
	 specification of the program file format is given as well in this
	 document. Please send any programs you produce to Arturo Espinosa so that
	 they are included in the next release.
  </P
><P
>	 The Turing Machine simulated by this program allows to read any kind of
   available character, but does not have a way to express "else", so
   programs that contemplate a large space of input may increase very easily.
	</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="index.html"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="index.html"
>Home</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="display.html"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
>GNOME Turing Machine simulator user guide.</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
>&nbsp;</TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
>The Display</TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></BODY
></HTML
>