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From: dag@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM (Daniel A. Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: Parallel APL?
Message-ID: <552@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 90 13:42:22 GMT
References: <4679@husc6.harvard.edu> <3970003@hpwrce.HP.COM> <1990Nov13.181255.15343@craycos.com>
Reply-To: fciva!dag@uunet.uu.net (Daniel A. Graifer)
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In article <1990Nov13.181255.15343@craycos.com> pmk@craycos.com (Peter Klausler) writes:
>In article <3970003@hpwrce.HP.COM> kingsley@hpwrce.HP.COM (Kingsley Morse) writes:
>>I've been told Cray or Control Data had an APL.
>Neither "Cray" (CRI or CCC) has an APL, unfortunately. There's no customer
>demand for it on the big iron.

I recall a rumour from my college days in the late 70's that somebody at Los
Alamos Labs had put an APL interpreter on one of their crays.  As I recall, it
was a single user implementation, it wouldn't co-reside with any other process
on the machine....kind of an expensive workstation!  But you might direct an
inquiry there.

Back in the early 80s, Burroughs (now Unisys) had the 'Burroughs Scientific
Processor' (BSP), a coprocessor which hung off of their 7000 series mainframes
which may have had an APL implementation.

Just because a computer's manufacturer doesn't have a piece of software doesn't
mean it doesn't exist.  For this class machine, I would send inquires to the
Livermore Labs as well as Los Alamos, and to NCSA and the San Diego Super-
Computing Center at UCSD.  I believe all of these places are on the net.

Dan