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- Standard ML of New Jersey, version 0.93, is now available for FTP.
- This is the first general public release since version 0.75, and there
- are a number of substantial improvements:
-
- . there are almost no remaining bugs,
- . less space is taken up for both compilation and execution,
- . several new machines are supported,
- . extensive documentation is provided, and
- . several experimental language extensions are provided.
-
- The distribution also contains:
-
- . an extensive library - The Standard ML of New Jersey Library,
- together with detailed documentation.
- . CML - Concurrent ML
- . eXene - an elegant interface to X11 (based on CML)
- . SourceGroup - a separate compilation and "make" facility
-
-
- SML/NJ 0.93 has been tested on these machine/OS combinations:
-
- Sun M680x0/SunOS (x >= 2)
- ** HP M680x0/HPUX[6,7,8]
- NeXT M68040/NeXTStep[2.0,3.0]
- Apple M680x0/AUX[3.0]
- Apple M680x0/MacOS
-
- Sun SPARCstation/SunOS[4.1.1, 4.1.3]
-
- DEC MIPS/ULTRIX[UWS4.2]
- DEC Mach
- MIPS MIPS/RiscOS[4.51,4.52]
- SGI MIPS/IRIX[4.0.x]
- Sony MIPS/Sony-News
-
- IBM RS6000/AIX[3.2]
-
- Sequent I386/DYNIX3
- Intel I[386,486]/BSD/MACH
-
- ++ HP HPPA/HPUX[8.0] (beta release)
-
- ** marks configurations that have not been tested recently.
- ++ The HPPA port is known to have a serious bug when compiling
- large programs, but should be adequate for classroom use.
-
-
-
- Standard ML of New Jersey is distributed free of charge and with no
- warranty. You may use, copy, modify, and distribute the software
- provided that you preserve the copyright notice and don't mention AT&T
- in your advertising; see the license (in the README) for details.
-
-
- To obtain Standard ML of New Jersey by Internet FTP:
-
- . Connect to: princeton.edu (128.112.128.1) or
- research.att.com (192.20.225.2).
- . Login as "anonymous" with your name as password
- . go to directory: pub/ml (on princeton.edu) or
- dist/ml (on research.att.com)
- . put ftp in binary mode ("binary")
- . transfer the relevant files in that directory
-
- The relevant files are in compressed tar format (except README and
- release-notes.{txt,ps}), and include:
-
- README general information
- 93.releaseNotes.ps Postscript version of Release Notes
- 93.releaseNotes.txt raw text version of Release Notes
- 93.src.tar.Z source code for the compiler
- 93.doc.tar.Z documentation directory (manpages, papers, help, ...)
- 93.tools.tar.Z tools directory (mlyacc, twig, sourcegroup, ...)
- 93.contrib.tar.Z contributed, unsupported software
- 93.mo.m68.tar.Z object files for the MC68020 (Sun-3, HP, Sony, etc.)
- 93.mo.sparc.tar.Z object files for the SPARC (Sun-4)
- 93.mo.mipsl.tar.Z object files for the little-endian MIPS (DECstation)
- 93.mo.mipsb.tar.Z object files for the big-endian MIPS (MIPS, SGI)
- 93.mo.rs6000.tar.Z object files for the RS6000
- 93.mo.i386.tar.Z object files for the Intel 386
- 93.mo.hppa.tar.Z object files for the HPPA
- 93.mac.tar.Z files for the Macintosh under MacOS
- smlnj-lib.0.1.tar.Z the Standard ML of New Jersey Library
- CML-0.9.8.tar.Z Concurrent ML
- eXene-0.4.tar.Z eXene - a multithreaded X Windows toolkit
-
- You will need at least the 93.src.tar.Z file and the 93.mo... files
- for the machines on which you intend to install the software. Further
- installation instructions are in the README and in the releaseNotes.{ps,txt}
- directory.
-
- There is a mailing list for users of Standard ML, carrying queries and
- discussions related to the language in general and to all ML compilers
- (not just Standard ML of New Jersey). New releases of our software
- are announced on this list. To enroll, send mail to sml-request@cs.cmu.edu.
- Messages for the list itself should be directed to sml-list@cs.cmu.edu.
-
- If you have questions or problems, please send mail to
-
- sml-bugs@research.att.com
-
- or
-
- macqueen@research.att.com
- appel@princeton.edu
-