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Date:Mon Nov 17 22:59:25 1992 
Subject:Re: PD Pop 
From:Aaron Sloman 
Volume-ID:921117.06 

mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov writes:

> Date: 17 Nov 92 13:26:26 GMT
> Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
>
> Is there a public domain Pop for unix or msdos?

Alas not public domain. The Poplog and Pop-11 development at Sussex
University has to be funded by fee and royalty income to pay for
the people working on it full time.

In the USA I think you can get an evaluation copy of Unix or VMS
Poplog or MAC Alphapop from

    Prof Robin Popplestone
    Dept. of Computer and Information Science
    Lederle Graduate Research Center
    University of Massachusetts
    Amherst, MA  01003, USA

or

    Prof Robin Popplestone
    Computable Functions Inc.,
    35 South Orchard Drive,
    Amherst, MA 01002, USA

    Phone(413) 253-7637         Email pop@cs.umass.edu

There's also an educational discount of about 85%

It runs on SPARC systems, HP non-risc Unix systems, MIPS machines,
DEC RISC + Ultrix, VAX+Ultrix, Silicon Graphics, and VAX+VMS.

I don't think there will ever be an msdos version because it
requires a large linear address space. A port to the PC windows
environment is in progress, but I have no idea whether or when it
will be completed.

> David Mulcihy
> mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov

I hope that helps.
Aaron
-- 
Aaron Sloman, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
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