On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 3:22 PM Gavin Scott via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> APL on the 3000 was a project started at HP Labs > in Palo Alto in the early 1970s. [...] > This would be the first > full APL implementation on a "small" (non-mainframe) computer. > There was IBM APL\1130 version 2, introduced in 1969. Maybe that can't considered "full"? I don't know all of what's missing; some accounts claim that it almost had feature parity with APL\360, except the circle function, which admittedly is a rather significant omission. I would be surprised if the circle function didn't make an appearance in later releases. In any case, that's awesome work resurrecting it! I used a 3000 a little bit in school from 1982 to 1984, but unfortunately it was mostly used for RJE to a System/370 elsewhere, so I didn't learn too much about the 3000.
