dave@bucket.UUCP (Dave Munroe) (11/14/86)
A friend of mine is very much interested in APL for the Mac (specifically, a Mac Plus). We would very much appreciate any information that could be provided regarding currently existing products (address, phone, price, personal experience with the product, etc.). I understand there is a magazine called Quote Quad - we would also appreciate info about subscribing to this magazine. Thank you in advance. -dave please mail responses to: ...!tektronix!reed!omen!bucket!safari!mike
ant3@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Butch Anton) (11/20/86)
There is a product out called APL*Plus for the Mac. It's marketed by
a company in Rockville, MD (sorry, I don't remember the name.) I
saw the product at COMDEX, and it seemed to be pretty good. It comes
with a book called "Easy APL" or something like that. The book is
targeted toward the novice user, but the rep. said that it make a
"more than adequate reference." Also, the package includes
stickers w/APL notation for the keycaps and may include a
keyboard map (on a reference card, not an overlay anything.)
No price was mentioned.
Hope this helps.
Butch Anton
Systems Analyst, University of Chicago, Dept. of Mathematics
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Chicago, IL 60637 ljdickey@water.UUCP (11/24/86)
I know of three APL's for the Mac: APL.68000 APL.Plus APL 90 The first two are about $395 each, and the other is shareware. The most mature, APL.68000, may be obtained from from Spencer Organization, Inc. 366 Kinderkamack Road P.O. Box 248 Westwood, New Jersey 07675 (201)-666-6011 or from Micro APL Limited, Unit 1F, Nine Elms Industrial Estate 87 Kirtling Street London SW8 5BP (01)-622-0395 This APL has been around for quite a while, and is relatively bug free in the core code. I have not tried the Mac version but other versions of APL.68000 are quite robust. The second, APL*Plus, is based on what was previously called PortaAPL, and comes from STSC, Inc 2115 East Jefferson Street Rockville, MD 20852 (301)-984-5000 STSC has been in the APL business for 17 years, has a successful APL product for the PC, and claim that this new release is fully compatible with that and its mainframe products. The third, APL 90, comes from Jean-Jacques Girardot Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines St. Etienne, France or from Fred Gross New Products Editor 1100 Richards Ave. Santa Fe, New Mexico (505)-827-7872 The main problem with this release of APL 90 for North Americans is that it uses the French keyboard layout. Fred wants you to send two floppies and the cost of postage before he sends you his latest copy of APL 90. There are reviews in the latest (Dec., 86) and forthcoming (Mar. 87) issues of APL Quote Quad.