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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
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Organization: The Consultants' Exchange, Orange County, CA.  (714) 842-6348
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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.


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