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From: bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst)
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Subject: Re: Help needed with Name Association
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Date: 22 Apr 91 18:12:19 GMT
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(OK all you J only people) I'll have to answer my own question.
I couldn't get "name association" to work on STSC's v.10 APL PC.
STSC's hotline staff has always proved unusually intelligent and
polite.  Two weeks ago "Bill" had no trouble running the
examples, but said he would check with the developer.  He phoned
me back a few moments ago.

The example workspace doesn't run on my IBM PC or Toshiba T1000
because these have 8088 processors, and the executable C
functions were mistakingly compiled by STSC with the 81888 rather
than the 8088 switch on.

I think it's very odd that I should be the first to notice this,
because "name association" adds extraordinary power to the use of
APL in calculations that require numerically stable algorithms.

Bruce



Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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