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Date:Mon Nov 1 11:31:51 2001 
Subject:Re: Poplog for Mac OS X? ... 
From:Jonathan L Cunningham 
Volume-ID:1011101.01 

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:22:35 +0000 (UTC), the [in/un]famous
Aaron.Sloman.XX@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman See text for reply
address) wrote:

>tsmithers@vicomtech.es writes:
>
>> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:41:26 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> Are there any plans for, or is there anybody
>> working on, a port of Poplog to Mac OS X?
>
>I don't know of anyone doing this, and would be interested to hear
>if it is happening.
>
>There is a version of poplog for powerPC running AIX, so I assume that
>if Mac OS X is largely unix-like then the incremental compiler

From casual reading, I believe Mac OS X is the MAC UI and
system calls layered on top of unix. So if unix is sufficiently
like unix, there should be no problem.

But I don't recall which unix - not AIX, I believe. Might
be System V, or MACH. Anyone know?

Essentially, the choice is now between MS Windows (in various
incarnations) and the unix family (including Linux). There isn't
really a Mac OS any more. (And the way things are going, soon
there won't be a choice of processors - Alpha is doomed, and
I don't think PowerPC can survive, unless the car-engine controller
market is big enough to sustain it. The desktop computer market
isn't.)

(snip)
>However finishing off a port would be a non trivial task.

I *might* no be as difficult as you fear - at least for the non
graphical parts. See my comment above. It may be worth finding
out which unix it is. I've no idea whether X windows would be
an add-on, or how difficult it would be. I'd be interested to
know.

Jonathan

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Jonathan L Cunningham