sentences:  SMS was initially developed by the "Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory" at Brigham Young University (later renamed in September, 1998 to "Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory" or EMRL) in the late 1980s on Unix workstations.The development of SMS was funded primarily by The United States Army Corps of Engineers and is still known as the "Department of Defense Surface-water Modeling System" or "DoD SMS".It was later ported to Windows platforms in the mid 1990s and support for HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, and Solaris platforms was discontinued.