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
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