14 Apr
2017
14 Apr
'17
2:02 p.m.
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
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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
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
On 2017-04-13 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
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. So, whence APL today?
Still lives on -- Dyalog, J, K, etc. Recently discovered the #jsoftware
channel on Freenode for APL fans.