Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
Is it this Analogic http://www.analogic.com/ ?
Skip says:
Yes, I believe that is the same Analogic Corp. They have been in
business since 1967.
Here is a comment on the APL machine from one of the implementers who
posted on a Yahoo APL discussion group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apl-l/message/8180
Re: APL on a chip [was Re: Whither APL or wither APL ??]
X-From: James L. Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:11:26 -0400, Curtis A. Jones wrote
(in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> What became of Analogic's APL Machine?
> Curtis
The best way to sum it up was that the Analogic APL Machine was a
technological success and a market failure. The implementation team of some
ten persons was disbanded and manufacturing ceased in 1985.
The APL Machine had an interpreter running on a Motorola 68000 which in turn
passed the processing of the primitive functions onto an Analogic array
processor. Work had started on moving the interpreter itself onto the array
processor.
The implementation of APL was somewhat unusual in that the library was
organized into a collection of objects -- functions and variables, and
if the
same object was used in more than one workspace there was no need to store
additional copies of it unless a change was made.
The APL language was compatible with STSC's pre-APL2 implementation, but
there were plans to advance it to an APL2 level.
The user interface was through what was called the "APL workstation" which
was a windowing environment, "InSight," implemented by Analogic, and which
ran on an IBM PC and under the QNX operating system. InSight provided the
user with up to ten windows which could be concurrently active.
The APL Machine came with a rich library of sophisticated mathematical
routines which were implemented in the array processor's machine code and
which were interfaced with APL as either quad functions or library
functions.
In 1984 The APL Machine was selected as "computing product of the year" by
Data Products magazine.
-- James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft
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