Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!gatech!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!peregrine!ccicpg!turnkey!conexch!rob From: rob@conexch.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: apl2/pc Keywords: apl2 Message-ID: <347@conexch.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 88 03:00:35 GMT Distribution: na Organization: The Consultants' Exchange, Orange County, CA. (714) 842-6348 Lines: 19 Posted: Thu Jun 2 23:00:35 1988 For those interested, IBM announced (privately) today APL2 for the PC. APL2 is a full blown implementation of IBM/APL2 V2. Not Version 3 as the mainframe recently was released. I have seen a demo at our local SIGAPL chapter by James Wheeler of IBM. It's about 140K + all the auxiliary processors of your choice. It even looked rather fast. I can't wait to get it onto my '386/20! Price is said to be $500.00. Availability? WHo knows. Since James Wheeler called my boss (Roy Sykes) to tell him the news, I suppose Jim was simply telling Roy IBM had made the decision to market the product. IBM has been using it internally for quite some time though. I hope this news is good news to all of you who want nested arrays, user-defined operators, et all for the PC. -- "Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only." Mat. 4:10 Robert Collins UUCP: ucbvax!ucivax!icnvax!conexch!rob HOMENET: (714) 995-7344 UUCP: uunet!ccicpg!turnkey!conexch!rob WORKNET: (714) 229-0284