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Date:Mon Oct 29 10:47:26 1997 
Subject:New version of the Pop-11 Primer 
From:Aaron Sloman see below for email address 
Volume-ID:971029.01 

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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