I have just put a slightly modified version of the Pop-11 primer into
the Birminhgam Poplog FTP directory, in the following versions
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 193924 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).
Should I install an HTML version (I could use latex2html to generate
it)?
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
In particular, there's a new basic introduction to Pop-11 based on
drawing happy and sad coloured faces.
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/rclib/teach/faces
Aaron
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