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From: amit@umn-cs.UUCP (Neta Amit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL for PC-AT clones
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 21:54:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 21:54:16 1987
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Reply-To: amit@umn-cs.UUCP (Neta Amit)
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I know of no PD APL for a PC-AT.  

There is at least one free APL, in the contributed software in the Unix
4.[23]bsd distribution tape. The version I have access to is a rather old
one, and not particularly impressive.  Nevertheless, it is free, and all
the sources are avilable. I don't know to what extent it is system
dependent. I also don't know if there are newer versions.  It was
developed in Purdue-EE in the early 80's (at best...). Will someone from
Purdue-EE shed some light?...

As for AT implementations, I'm also in the market.  I called STSC and IP
Sharp. IP Sharp has a supported product, which they (and Lee Dickey --
thanx Lee) claim is very compatible with their mainframe implementation.
They also say it is rather slow in execution, and they are not active in
marketing it. In fact, they recommend the STSC product...  You may be
interested in the product after all, because it supports nested arrays.
The list price is $395. They have quantity and educational discounts
(about 50% off).

STSC appears to have a much more active operation in this market.  Their
MS-DOS product (the full fledged, not the pocket version) is a solid
implementation (so they say), with full support for graphics, statistical
package and what not. It is reasonably fast.  The current version (6.x)
will be replaced soon by version 7, as will the price tag ($595 going to
$650 -- or was it $695?). They also have educational discounts ($295
going to $350). Nested arrays are not supported. They ARE supported on
the AT-Xenix implementation (bigger bucks: $500 ed-discount).

I have no details about the IBM implementation(s), and would love to hear
about it.
-- 
  Neta Amit 
  U of Minnesota CSci
  Arpanet: amit@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu