IBM 5100

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Ron Hudson wrote: "translate between"???? two languages and an OS There ain't no sech animal in THIS universe. Although cross interpreters between APL and BASIC are certainly possible, I don't recall any commercial ones. The 5100s in THIS universe can RUN BASIC, and can RUN APL, (both interpretive languages), but "translate"?? The time traveller must have been successful! and went back far enough to steal the only prototype. What WE know of as the 5100 was a later attempt to replace the stolen prototype, but with much more limited capabilities. The limited capabilites of the replacement 5100 (that came after the magical one that could TRANSLATE between BASIC, APL, and UNIX), are easily replicated in many later machines, and are hardly unique. Even the VideoBrain had an APL cartridge. And one of the INITIAL offerings when the 5150 was released was a diskette based APL interpreter. (complete with key labels)