Here are two old handwritten papers by Robin Milner that @jer_gib helped me track down, and a few thoughts on them. https://decomposition.al/blog/2025/11/20/where-simulation-came-from/
Where “simulation” came from

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@lindsey @jer_gib I love a good library hunting story! I can't believe Oxford had a copy while Swansea didn't. If you are able to, please put them on archive.org.
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@sree @jer_gib Maybe Swansea does have them in a dusty file cabinet somewhere. But anyway, good idea to put them on archive.org.
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It's possible that Hindley has a copy, but I don't think he has been on campus at all in my time here at Swansea. I can maybe ask John Tucker or one of the other computing history people to stick it on cronfa