Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:9626 comp.lang.apl:623 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!rice!uw-beaver!milton!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!rochester!rocksanne!spot!norm From: norm@hydro.wbst845e.xerox.com (Norm Crowfoot) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.apl Subject: Re: APL\360 Computers Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 02:08:27 GMT References: <1226@stca77.stc.oz> <1991Feb8.003825.15723@informix.com> <2769@ylum.Morgan.COM> Sender: news@WRC.XEROX.COM Organization: Xerox KBS Center, Webster, New York Lines: 19 In-reply-to: sethb@Morgan.COM's message of 13 Feb 91 13:01:16 GMT We were a beta site for APL\1130 during the summer of '68. Had some special ties to Yorktown and got a very early version of the interpreter: some "features": o single character names for everything o one and two dimensions, from 1 to 256 for each dimension Wow, what a long time ago. What a strange language. I thought I was the only in the little research lab that didn't understand it (I was young), the other guys were to afraid to ask. -- | | Norm Crowfoot Voice: 716/422-2458 |\ | KBS Competency Center Internet: crowfoot@arisia.xerox.com | \ | Xerox Corp - MS: 0845-20C XNS: ncc:wbst845e:xerox | \| 780 Salt Road FAX: 716/422-2479 | | Webster, New York 14580 /|\ / | \