Joey - according to Wikipedia, Sharp APL was available as an "in-house" product in 1980. This raises the question of what date to use - that of the internal system or one publicly available. I've been tending to the earlier date.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: > Devon, > > Nice that you're doing this. > > The IBM 5100 was APL.SV rather than APL\360 - it was indeed in 1975. > I think one of the astonishing things about the 5100 is that the IBM > Rochester department that developed it had only 8 regular employees. > Another interesting fact is that when the 5110 came out with disk > storage, a 3.5 inch technology from Sony (that showed up 10 years > later in PCs) was rejected because it was "too far out" - instead the > already in use IBM 8 inch floppy was used... > > Sharp APL came considerably earlier than 1979. Actually in 1978 or 79 > Sharp APL had dial up access in Moscow - as well as many other places > around the world. STSC's first time sharing service was run on a > machine at I.P. Sharp Associates, the development of the APL file > system was a shared project. Considerable history of the Sharp > network (along with contemporary other networks) can be found at > http://www.rogerdmoore.ca/ the wikipedia page > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._P._Sharp_Associates is interesting > and partly accurate ... > > There is active interest in APL and time lines like this at > http://www.computerhistory.org/ (whose server has been down today...) > > - joey > > > At 00:03 -0400 2009/08/31, Devon McCormick wrote: > >Thanks for the reminder - and a belated happy birthday to J! > > > >This is a good intro for something I'm working on for the Ken Iverson page > >for the ACM's Turing Award winners web pages. There's a section I'm on > now > >for APL systems in chronological order. I've asked APL vendors to > >contribute a few lines about their respective systems but it's mostly > meant > >as an historical perspective. > > > >I'd like some help with dates and any systems I've missed. For instance, > >Wikipedia mentions systems by Burroughs, CDC, and other mainframe > companies > >with whose APLs I am unfamiliar. > > > >Here's what I have so far: > > > >[1964] I.P. Sharp Associates: developed early packet switching computer > >networking system known as IPSANET, and a global e-mail system. Purchased > >in 1987[?] by Reuters. > >[1966] APL\360 > >[1967] APL\1130 > >[1969] Scientific Time-Sharing Corporation > >[1973] APL.SV: introduces shared variables. > >[1973] 8008-based MCM/70 > >[1975?] APL\360 on the 5100 > >[?] Burroughs APL\700 > >[1977] 8080-based "small APL" called EMPL > >[1977] Z-80-based TIS APL > >[1978] PDP / LSI-11 implementmentation of APL > >[1979] Sharp APL > >[1981?] IBM VSAPL > >[1982?] APL.68000 for Motorola 68000 > >[1983?] Analogic's APL machine > >[1982] APL*PLUS PC > >[1983?] NARS2000: open source APL interpreter written by Bob Smith. > >[1983?] MicroAPL's APLX > >[1984] IBM APL2 > >[1985] Dyalog > >[1988] Timothy A. Budd's "An APL compiler" > >[1987] Rationalized APL > >[1988] A+ > >[1989] J Software > >[1990] ACORN: APL to C On Real Numbers - a prototype APL to C compiler. > >[1993] K > >[1995] APL2000 > >[?] APL to C# translator from Causeway Graphical Systems > >[?] Bob Bernecky's APEX compiler > > > >Any help, especially with references, would be appreciated. As you can > see, > >some of them - I'm looking at you "Sharp" - are particularly difficult to > >pin down. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Devon > > > >On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:07 PM, PackRat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Three days ago, August 27 (about 4pm), was the 20th anniversary of the > >> "birth" of J <http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum>, and > >> it has grown and developed ever since. I don't know if the developers > >> of J consider that the "birthdate", but it makes a lot of sense to me. > >> Happy birthday, J! > >> > >> Harvey > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > > > > > > >-- > >Devon McCormick, CFA > >^me^ at acm. > >org is my > >preferred e-mail > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
