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From: Richard_s_Stoneston@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: APL for PC-AT clones
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 04:23:24 EDT
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Okay, for PC-AT and other MS PC/dos people and computers there are several
APL's available.  I know of no PD APL's available for anything- someone may
enlighten me on this.  I do know of a project going on in England to come
out with a PD Apl for the XT/AT machines but do not know to what extent the
language will be implemented.  My guess it will be a stripdown but if the
source is released people may want to extend the parser to include more
things.

Commercial APL's for PC/XT/AT types include, from STSC, Pocket APL ($100),
and STSC APL/PC ($$$ not sure, but expensive), IBM-APL, and perhaps
ibm ver 2 of apl.  IBM-APL REQUIRES 8087 + CGA.  As far as I know, pocket
APL will run on an unmodified XT/AT with either CGA or EGA hardware (no
character generator required) with or without an 8087.  I also believe
the same is true for the full-fledged professional STSC APL PLUS/PC, which
is expensive... and probably can use either 8087 emulations or 8087
coprocessor, depending on what is in the computer.