On 2013-07-30, at 18:51, Chris Craddock wrote:

> On Jul 30, 2013, at 7:20 PM, "David Cole" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... I wonder if YREGS came originally from Yale. In the '70s,
>> Howard Gilbert and I were involved in writing a version of APL that
>> would run within TSO, and it was sold by IBM as an "IUP". (Extra
>> points if you remember what either "APL" or "IUP" means...)
>
> APL is "A Programming Language" based on Ken Iverson's doctoral work.
> IUP is "Installed User Program" kind of a "best effort, don't count on it" 
> support IIRC
>
Does the "Y" stand for "Yale"?

Elsewhere, there's IATYREGS.  I don't know the compatibility
constraints.  And CMS has REGEQU.  Someone just didn't get
ahead of the game.

-- gil

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