Luc Beaudoin (lucb@tundra.com) wrote:
: I don't get tired of asking this FAQ because I want to push the poplog
: developers to realise that Pop-11 could win thousands of converts if
: it was readily and easily available on PCs. Linux is a step in the
: right direction (since it can work with PCs), but let's face it: most
: people don't run UNIX on their PCs.
: So when will Poplog (or at least Pop-11) be available to run under
: Windows? I've heard it said quite frequently that it's easy to port
: Pop to a new OS...
From my experience of UNIX and Win32 programming it shouldn't be too hard to
port the Linux (solaris x86) version of pop11 over to win32. I could do it if
they gave me the source :-)
You wouldn't of course have any of the x11 support. Ved would also present
problems as it expects to display by sending escape sequences to stdout that
it has gleamed from termlib, none of which exists under windows. This could be
got around by binding some generic vt100 emulator code to pop and simulating
the termlib database so it always gives the correct info.
Richard
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