Love to have my Selectric in a desk APL terminal again. -pete
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:02 PM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > To my knowledge, there is only one person that claims to > > have a cartridge for the APL on the VideoBrain. He considers it > > more valuable than gold and won't let anyone look at it or > > dump its contents. > > Such code running on a VideoBrain would surely warrant the /S > > label for "Small". > > Without some form of bank switching the resources of the VideoBrain > > are minimal. > > It has almost no RAM and the decoding has mirrored images through > > the address space. > > The F8 was clearly intended as an embedded controller similar to > > the Rockwell PPS4. > > Dwight > > > > ________________________________ > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Eric > Christopherson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 8:22:32 PM > To: Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk > Subject: Re: APL and descendants - was Re: If C is so evil why is it so > successful? > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote: > > Toby Thain via cctalk wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:34:08 -0400 > > > On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > > > So, whence APL today? > > > > > > Still lives on -- Dyalog, J, K, etc. Recently discovered the #jsoftware > > > channel on Freenode for APL fans. > > > > I consider Matlab and Julia to be spiritual descendents of APL. > > > > One thing that hurt APL in early microcomputers was that they used text > > mode with the wrong font. I would also have guessed that Basic could > > work better in really limited hardware, but some early APL > > implementations were impressively frugal. > > The VideoBrain home computer had something called APL/S, but I can't > find any information on how it differs from APL. Does anyone know? > > -- > Eric Christopherson > >