[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

Tue Jun 5 11:11:12 CDT 2007

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:53:13AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> APL seems unlikely.  PL/1, perhaps?

No, the link posted previously says APL. APL was also an interpreted
labguage and was around for a long time. Circa 1969-1970, I wanted
to play with it and wrote a scalar only APL interpreter in BASIC
for the HP 2100 timesharing system. Since we only had a tty-33 as
the terminal all of the APL special operators were three letter
codes. At times like this I wish I had saved a paper tape of it.

My one brush with real APL was that around 1980 I had an office 
that had been partitioned off of the computer room APL was developed
in. By that time it was split into three offices and a smaller
computer room containing 3330 disk drives and a 2305 "drum".

The computers (2 370/168s in an MP configuration) were two floors
below and unrelated to IBM or APL.

Geoff.

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