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From: ken@braegen.UUCP
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Subject: Re: APL for PC-AT clones
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 23:52:46 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 23:52:46 1987
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Sharp's pc product is indeed compatible with their mainframe version.
However, they achieved this compatibility by writing an emulator of the
mainframe environment. This makes the APL about the slowest available
language for the PC environment.
Also note that while it has nested arrays it does not have the other 
extensions that make APL2 so interesting.
In the PC world with the higher end processors expect STSC to produce
a DOS nested array version within the next year or so.
-- 
			Ken Marchant
			The Braegen Group, Toronto, Ontario
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