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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: APL Query
Message-ID: <325@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 23:56:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.325
Posted: Fri Jul 27 23:56:23 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 11:00:57 EDT
References: <311@watdcsu.UUCP>, <3016@rabbit.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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> Tom Happanen [sic] states that IBM APL for the PC will not display upper/lower
> case characters at the same time as APL characters.  This is false.

If I was wrong, I stand corrected.  However, consider the following:
The IBM APL does not use a different character generator ROM.
Instead, it uses the colour/graphics card's facility to redefine the
character set in software, which only allows for the use of 128
characters at a time.  I am amazed if IBM managed to squeeze uppper
and lower case (total: 52 chars), numbers (10 chars), APL symbols
(around 45 at least, not counting overstrikes) and other punctuation
into 127 characters!  They definitely left out things like line
drawing characters and foreign language symbols (all of which are in
STSC's APL) if this is the case.

> Some of us think that APL systems that are "loaded with system functions"
> are baroque.

Hmmm... if you want to be able to do things (graphics, screen
controls, files, DOS access, ...) you have to access them somehow.
You can always go to VM to use auxiliary processors, right?   :-)

	Tom "Yes, people, there really are two 'A's there" Haapanen
	{allegra,decvax,ihnp4}!watmath!watdcsu!haapanen

Naturally, I'm in no way affiliated with STSC (which is probably a trademark)