I've downloaded the windows version of Poplog, but have had distinctly
limited joy with it.
(1) POP-11 seems to work tolerably. But there's quite a bit of Unix
stuff that's simply unbound. For example the ved_ls command
(<enter>ls<return>) obviously tries to spawn off a Unix shell(...!).
While dired isn't implemented.
(2) I couldn't restore any of the .psv files to get Common Lisp, Prolog
and SML. [wrong system and version messages]
(3) I successfully built Prolog (though it's a bit of a bore to have
to compile the whole system every time you use it...)
(4) Trying to build Common Lisp consistently crashed Windows 95 (... what
an "operating system"...)
(5) I built the Poplog SML (pml) with apparent success EXCEPT that
no output appeared from my interactions, except when I made an error.
It's not that I'm complaining, since it's all a freebie. But it doesn't
give a very good impression of Poplog, to say the least.
I don't know if anybody can help me with this - I'd like to build my
Scheme in the system, but the experience isn't encouraging me to
believe it would be worth the effort.
Robin.
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