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Date:Mon Jan 24 10:45:58 1996 
Subject:Re: Poplog in the US 
From:Julian Clinton 
Volume-ID:960124.01 


Luc Beaudoin wrote:
>How are sales of Poplog in the US doing? Is there now a healthy megalomanic
>goal of "making Pop-11 very big"?

Sales in the US are small but steady and there have been quite
a few transfers of the free Linux Poplog from the US. Some are
getting it for the Lisp but hopefully these people will also try
out Pop-11.

>Could someone please fill me in on Hardware requirements of PC version of
>Poplog?

Recommended system requirements for Linux Poplog are 486DX/33 with
12-16Mb of memory. Disk space required is around 50Mb which
can be reduced if particular languages are not required.

You will need a 1.0.x or 1.2.x Linux kernel and for X development,
you'll need to get Motif libraries.

>Is there any talk about a Poplog implementation of Dylan?

Given Apple's current problems and its apparently wavering support
for Dylan, it would be a risky punt for us to do one. This isn't to say
we wouldn't be interested in talking to someone else who had...

Julian