After I announced the free Poplog site
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/freepoplog.html
mreddy@glam.ac.uk (Mike Reddy) wrote:
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:04:27 +0100
> Organization: Dept of Computer Studies, Glamorgan University
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> May I congratulate you for making Poplog "open source".
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> Mike Reddy
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> The box said: "Requires MS Windows 3.11 or better"... so I got a Macintosh!
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I should make it clear that although I have set up the FTP site here
in Birmingham, none of this would have been possible but for the
excellent work done by the Poplog developers at Sussex University.
We also need to thank Sussex and ISL (who used to market Poplog
commercially) for agreeing to allow free distribution with open
source.
I am still working on the FTP site, e.g. adding a bugfixes
directory, and producing information for people wishing to set up
mirror sites. I'll broadcast information about this from time to
time.
Some people have had problems using winzip on PC/Windows to install
PC poplog, an answer to this problem, provided by Alan Littleford is
in
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/bugfixes/BUGREPORTS
But I don't know whether more needs to be said.
Since most of the Poplog documentation is geared to the Unix/VMS
environment (with X facilities), it would be nice if someone who is
familiar with PCs (unlike me) and who understands Poplog can provide
useful documentation for complete beginners, e.g. how to start up prolog
or lisp or ML instead of pop11, etc. how to save files in a different
directory from the Poplog directory.
(Having had a tiny taste of a PC while trying out Poplog under Windows95
I simply can't believe that any operating system designer in the 1990s
could be so irresponsible as NOT to provide proper support for multiple
users of the same machine, with protection against different users
clobbering each other's files. Just calling it a "personal computer" is
no justification, given the actual uses of such machines in offices, in
private homes, schools, universities, etc. Are all the millions of MS
customers, including commercial customers, too stupid to complain about
this???)
Aaron
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