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- This is the Mops manual, as of version 2.5, Nov 1994.
-
- If you are new to Mops, I recommend you tackle it by reading Roadmap, Intro,
- and then work through Part I (the Tutorial). That will give you a good start.
- Then read as much of Part II as you need or feel comfortable with. Use
- Part III as a reference -- don't try to read it through.
-
- The Assembler will let you write 68000 machine code, and the Assembler
- manual will give you an introduction to 68000 programming. With the
- arrival of Power Macs, however, the Assembler is less useful than it was,
- since 68k assembly code won't run on Power Macs. So only bother with
- the Assembler if you have some very low-level machine-specific things to
- do.
-
- Finally, please note that I am releasing all original Mops material into
- the public domain. If you want to use it commercially, that's fine, go
- right ahead, but I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know. In
- return I could let you know of any late-breaking bugs/fixes which may be
- very helpful to you.
-
- I'd also like to know about any other Mops development that anyone feels
- free to let me know about. Even better, if you develop some whiz-bang new
- class or whatever, you could send me a copy and I could make it part of the
- standard Mops release. This has already occurred with significant code being
- contributed by Doug Hoffman, Greg Haverkamp and Xan Gregg. As a one-man
- part-time effort, Mops can't hope to compete with the slick commercial
- products - but with a bit of cooperation from those using it, Mops could
- become a very useful development system, and the price is certainly right.
- (So is the performance, I think you'll find.)
-
- If you have any queries, comments or (gasp!) bug reports, please send me
- an email message at one of the following:
-
- internet: mikeh@zeta.org.au
- CompuServe: 100033,3164
-
- snail-mail:
- Michael Hore
- 54 Frederick St,
- Sydenham NSW 2044,
- AUSTRALIA.
-
-
- I also read the newsgroups comp.lang.forth and comp.lang.forth.mac, so
- you can post there and I'll see it, especially if you put "Mops" somewhere
- in the subject line.
-
- There was also a Mops topic on GEnie (Forth RoundTable, category 7, topic 40),
- but I guess this is now defunct, since I don't have access to GEnie any more,
- and probably won't in the foreseeable future. So if you need to contact me,
- do it in one of the other ways.
-
- I hope you enjoy Mops.
-
-
- -- Mike Hore.
-