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Date:Mon Nov 17 07:56:11 1992 
Subject:Re: FTP'able pop for msdos 
From:Chris Dollin 
Volume-ID:921118.04 

In article ... diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott) writes:

   Really the title says it all - is there an ftp'able version of POP-11 or
   similar for MS-DOS? Efforts to find it through archie etc have failed.
   (Or is it copyright and am I being dumb?)

So far as I know, there are no FTP'able versions of Pop at all. Pop also tends
not to run on MS-DOS machines, historically (I think) because of their pig-poor
addressing and underpowered CPUs; this has changed recently. (Poplog does run
on Sequent Symmetrys, which are high-end *86's. I think.)

Pop is available

	* inside Poplog, which runs on various Unix engines and VMS; perhaps
	some other systems which Aaron or Steve can remind me of;

	* as AlphaPop, which runs on the Mac;

There's also a Pop look-a-bit-like called Glo (Glow?) which, I *think*, runs on
the PC; there was a review in Byte a few months back.

Some person somwhere was rumoured to be doing a Pop look-fairly-like called
Saffron, or Karl, or Salt. Something like that. But I don't think they've done
anything with it recently. Lazy frogs.
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