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Date:14 Oct 2004 04:04:24 -0000 
Subject:Re: Poplog port to OS X 
From:Luc Beaudoin 
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Philippe's team was able to isolate their problem with Darwin to a couple of operations (right and left shifts), everything else is fine for the Darwin port. The Darwin port itself is not essential to the OS X. We've decided to low-priority-background the resolution of this shift issue, and to proceed with linux on PowerPC (which is just about ready), and then move on to OS X proper.

Cheers,

Luc
On 2004 Oct 12, at 2:36 PM, Luc Beaudoin wrote:



Begin forwarded message:

From: Luc Beaudoin <Luc.P.B@cogsky.com>
Date: 2004 October 12 2:36:14 PM PDT
To: alec@mckenzie.me.uk
Subject: Re: Poplog port to OS X

Welcome back to Poplog, Alec!
Thanks for your offer of help.
Our current hickup on the port is:
	http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/discuss/2004-October/004761.html

Luc
On 2004 Oct 12, at 2:49 AM, Alec McKenzie wrote:


Having just joined this mailing list, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Alec McKenzie. I retired six years ago, after nearly forty years as a computer programmer. I first became acquainted with high-level languages in the mid 1970s. I have fond memories of using poplog/pop11 for a while in the 1980s (in HMI research), and thinking the time was bound to come when personal computers would have advanced to the point where one could run such a system at home.


Five years ago I treated myself to a top-of-the-range B/W G3 Mac. It still continues to give me faultless service, though its 450 MHz does look slow by today's standards. I am running Mac OS 10.2.8.

I am delighted to find that porting of poplog to OS X is now proceeding, and I could perhaps become a poplog/pop11 user once again. If I can contribute to this project in any way with my limited resources I would be glad to.

--
Alec McKenzie
alec@mckenzie.me.uk