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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl,comp.misc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Ampere Portable APL Computer
Keywords: APL
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Date: 3 May 89 17:24:53 GMT
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In article <1192@infbs.UUCP> hafer@infbs.UUCP (Udo Hafermann) writes:
>Will there ever be an APL hand-held pocket calculator?

I wouldn't be surprised if there were one pretty soon.  I've seen ads
for a hand-held symbolic math computer, and at the ANSI Common Lisp
committee meeting in March a Japanese representative was showing off a
hand-held Lisp computer.  The technology for a hand-held APL computer
exists, therefore.  Incorporate a vector co-processor into one of the
above designs and you could probably get decent performance for most
common operations.


Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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