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Date:Mon May 11 12:59:12 1999 
Subject:Poplog sources 
From:Jonathan L Cunningham 
Volume-ID:990511.04 

>Poplog (including Pop-11) is shortly to become available free of
>charge. I don't know exactly when -- see
>    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/poplog.info.html


That's good news.

I had a quick look at this reference, which says
 "Poplog (V15.53) including sources ... details still have to be worked out"

Do you know if this will include all the sources? Presumably you will
need at least one working poplog already in order to recompile and
link poplog, so it is conceivable that "sources" refers only to all
the libraries, but not, e.g., the source file(s) for the garbage
collector.

Not that I have any urge to hack any garbage collectors - I'm
just asking out of curiousity.

There is also the issue of divergent poplogs, if all the sources
are released and people start making incompatible changes. (I guess
version control is a problem for bug fixes to libraries anyway.)

It will be interesting to see what, if anything, happens.

Jonathan