INFORMATION ON POPLOG PROVIDED BY ISL AUGUST 1999

For more detailed information about Poplog see

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplog.html
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/poplog.info.html

When ISL had been taken over by SPSS and it was clear, in 1999, that
they were going to use but not sell Poplog, and only long enough to
port Clementine to Java and C++, I offered to take the sources and
currently available working Poplog systems and make everything
available free of charge on this web site.

Because of my long association with Poplog (having managed its
development for several years before moving from Sussex to
Birmingham), this offer was acceptable to Sussex University and the
Poplog developers who had been in ISL (by then mostly working for
SPSS). The non-restrictive copyright document we chose (modelled on
the XFree86 copyright document) is available online here

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/copyright.html

A former director of ISL, who had chosen not to join SPSS, provided
me, in 1999, with some of the Poplog marketing documents that had
been used in the years preceding the takeover. Several were in
FrameMaker format, and I have only recently (June 2009) managed to
extract all the text, made available here.

These are the documents (converted from MSWord or FrameMaker):

    poplog-applications.pdf
        A mixture of commercial products and research projects.

    selected-poplog-applications.pdf
        A more detailed set of case studies

    French-blurb-poplog.pdf
        A diagram with labels and captions in French,
        describing Poplog in outline.

    Compare these two, which are part of the Pop-11 primer:
        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/primer/poplog.unix.medium.gif
            How Poplog relates to the operating system.

        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/primer/popmodel.gif
            some of the main features of the Poplog, Pop-11 virtual
            machine

    non-uk-academic-poplog-users.pdf
    non-uk-academic-poplog-users.txt
        A list of non-UK academic users of Poplog, most in the USA.
        Most of these would have paid the full 'academic' purchase
        price, though there were probably discounts arranged.

    UK-academic-poplog-users.txt
        A list of UK academic users of Poplog, between the early
        1980s and 1998. These would have obtained Poplog either
        directly from the University of Sussex at little or no cost
        before 1991, or from ISL after 1991, when commercial
        charging was unavoidable. (ISL was too small and insecure to
        adopt a 'totally charitable' approach, in those days. The internet
        was not available to make distribution cheap and easy.)

    clementine.txt
        A short history of Clementine, the product that eventually
        made ISL famous. Most of the users who bought it did not
        know that they were using Poplog or that they were using
        Pop-11, since they were simply taught how to use it. Some
        wanted to extend it and were taught Pop-11 and shown how
        to use it.

ADDED 13 Dec 2017
In 1992 Poplog won a UK Government SMART award for achieving sales worth
5 Million Dollars.
See bottom of page 3 of the Sussex University Bulletin for May 1992:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/internal/bulletin/downloads/1990-1999/1992/May/19920520.pdf

Information also copied to
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/isl-docs/poplog-sussex-bulletin/

Aaron Sloman
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs
6 Jul 2009
Modified: 23 Jul 2009; 13 Dec 2017