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From: mason@utcsri.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.lang.apl
Subject: Re: request PC apl info
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 16:43:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 16:43:10 1985
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Organization: University of Toronto/Ryerson Polytechnic Institute
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Summary: Sharp APL/PC only utilities in C


I have a friend who works at I.P.Sharp Associates and in fact worked on the
IBM PC version of Sharp APL.  The APL interpreter is actually the same as the
one that runs on 3084 and such like mainframes, i.e. it is written in S/370
assembler language.  There is an interpreter for S/370 machine language
written in 8086 assembler which actually gets reasonable performance.  The 
support routines (such as the screen manager, session manager, and possibly the
file manager) are written in C running in 8086 mode.
   This is probably the most complete APL you can get, from the industry leader
and at a bargain price too!  If I owned an IBM PC, it's probably the first
software I would buy for it.
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