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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: J for the NeXT
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.142411.23400@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 14:24:11 GMT
References: <9009201910.AA14816@nextasy2.eecs.wsu.edu> <2982@mcrware.UUCP>
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <2982@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes:
>In article <9009201910.AA14816@nextasy2.eecs.wsu.edu> dwatola@NEXTASY2.EECS.WSU.EDU (David Watola) writes:

>When J is referred to as "freely available," does this mean that someone is
>releasing freely-available executables for various machines,

yes.

>or does it mean the source code is available?

no

Already executables are available at "watserv1.waterloo.edu" for anonymous
ftp.  Today you can have executables for PC and Mac this way.   Soon
you should find others in the same area, representing systems at Waterloo
with people and machines that are interested in J.  We expect to have
VAX BSD, NeXT, and MIPS versions before the end of the week.  Maybe
we will have more.