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Date:Mon Jan 13 22:03:27 1998 
Subject:Re: HTML version of the Pop-11 Primer 
From:David Ness 
Volume-ID:980114.01 

I searched the document you refer to for a FAQ, and couldn't find
the answer to the question:
Is there a version of POP-11 that runs under NT? 

Cay you help?

Aaron Sloman see below for email address wrote:
> 
> As requested by some recipients of my previous posting about the Pop-11
> primer, I have used latex2html to convert the latex to html and put the
> result in
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer/START.html
> 
> Pop-11 is an incrementally compiled language with most of the features
> of Common Lisp but a more familiar (Pascal like) syntax. It also uses an
> open stack for procedure arguments and results (like Forth). The primer
> is intended for readers with some programming experience, but does not
> give full information about the language.
> 
> As previously announced the following additional versions of the
> Pop11 Primer are avilable in Birminhgam Poplog FTP directory
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/teach/primer    602004 bytes
>         Directly browsable plain text
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer.gz       195386 bytes
>         Compressed version of the above
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer.ps.gz    412327 bytes
>         compressed postscript file. Prints as 298 pages of A4
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer2.ps.gz   418515 bytes
>         compressed postscript file. Prints two pages per A4 sheet.
>         149 pages.
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer.tex.gz   193925 bytes
>         compressed latex source for the postscript version. Edit if
>         you want something that prints on US paper.
>         You will also need this file:
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/popmodel.eps    17482 bytes
>         eps file produced by TGIF used for the diagram of the model.
> 
> The main change since the 1996 version of the Primer is that there a new
> section describing a "minimal model" of the Pop-11 virtual machine, with
> a diagram showing the dictionary, the heap, the procedure call stack,
> the user stack and input/output channels (e.g. for things like readline
> and printing).
> 
> For more information see
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/README
> 
> The RCLIB package has been extended since I last posted an announcement.
> The news file is
>     ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/rclib/help/rclib_news
> 
> Aaron
> ===
> --
> Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
> School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
> EMAIL A.Sloman at cs.bham.ac . uk
> Phone: +44-121-414-4775 (Sec 3711)       Fax:   +44-121-414-4281