Re: APL-11

2020-04-04 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Well, I have had the time to thoroughly go over what is on that RL02 Disk Image. It's disappointing. One could certainly not do an install on any of the OSes from that pack as it is very incomplete. Lots of missing file. On top of that, reading some of the files shows that there should be a

Re: REL APL-11

2020-04-01 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:33:45AM -0400, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > Like any other language, APL is only obfuscated to those who never > learned to understand it. I was required to take it at Rice University circa 1974. I got quite good at it. A week later, I had *no* idea what the

Re: APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 31, 2020, at 5:50 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:02 AM Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > >> RSTS V9 and later have a BACKUP that's compatible with VMS, so if RSX has >> one also that would work. And there's DECnet, of course. >> > are the NIC drivers

Re: APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:02 AM Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:45 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On 3/31/20 8:37 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > >>> On Mar 30, 2020, at 10:30 PM, Mark Matlock via

APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Mark Matlock via cctalk
it. At one point DEC donated the APL-11 to DECUS and I think that is when I got it back in 1984 or so. The files I have include the Macro-11 source code which as near as I can tell was not on the DEC distribution when it was a layered product. I now think that the copy of APL-11 I have must have

Re: APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:45 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > wrote: > > On 3/31/20 8:37 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >>> On Mar 30, 2020, at 10:30 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> According to the Ref Manual, that's the one I was looking for. Now to mount the RL on

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 30, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctech > wrote: > > On 3/30/20 3:21 PM, Mark Matlock via cctech wrote: >> Bill, >>The APL-11 files on DECUS RSX85A are not a complete distribution but a >> modified version that was intended to run under I/

Re: APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/30/20 10:30 PM, Mark Matlock via cctech wrote: According to the Ref Manual, that's the one I was looking for. Now to mount the RL on RSTS and see what it takes to build it there. I'll let the list know how I make out in case someone else is interested. bill The RL02 image is RSX

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/31/20 8:36 AM, Paul Koning wrote: On Mar 30, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctech wrote: On 3/30/20 3:21 PM, Mark Matlock via cctech wrote: Bill, The APL-11 files on DECUS RSX85A are not a complete distribution but a modified version that was intended to run under I/D

Re: APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/31/20 8:37 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Mar 30, 2020, at 10:30 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk wrote: According to the Ref Manual, that's the one I was looking for. Now to mount the RL on RSTS and see what it takes to build it there. I'll let the list know how I make out in case

Re: APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 30, 2020, at 10:30 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk > wrote: > >> According to the Ref Manual, that's the one I was looking for. >> Now to mount the RL on RSTS and see what it takes to build it >> there. I'll let the list know how I make out in case someone >> else is interested. >> >>

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/30/20 7:45 PM, Marc Howard via cctalk wrote: The only things I remember about APL were: 1. Square divide symbol formed something that looked like a domino (1 over 1) and was the random number generator. 2. Someone always finds a way to do a moderate sized task in one line of code. The

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-31 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
1.4 of the APL-11 Users Manual. You use Mnemonics. Special combinations of letters preceded by a period that represent the symbols. Not as easy to read but still gives you the power of APL. On the Prime it was combinations of letters preceded by an octothorpe "#". bill

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/30/20 3:21 PM, Mark Matlock via cctech wrote: Bill, The APL-11 files on DECUS RSX85A are not a complete distribution but a modified version that was intended to run under I/D on M+. I have the APL-11 V2.1 source files on a RL02 disk image. I will make it available at http

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Marc Howard via cctalk
; wrote: > > > > On 3/30/2020 1:37 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk wrote: > > > > > > Bill, > > > I have the APL-11 V2.1 source files on a RL02 disk image. I > will make it available at http://www.rsx11m.com/apl11.zip < > http://www.rsx11m.com/apl11.zip

APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Mark Matlock via cctalk
>According to the Ref Manual, that's the one I was looking for. >Now to mount the RL on RSTS and see what it takes to build it >there. I'll let the list know how I make out in case someone >else is interested. > >bill The RL02 image is RSX Files-11, and I’m not sure if you can mount that with

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Marc Howard via cctalk
< cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 3/30/2020 1:37 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk wrote: > > > > Bill, > > I have the APL-11 V2.1 source files on a RL02 disk image. I will > make it available at http://www.rsx11m.com/apl11.zip < > http://www.rsx11m.com/ap

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/30/20 2:22 PM, Zane Healy wrote: On Mar 30, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 3/30/20 12:34 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 3/30/20 7:58 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? APL-11 was released through DECUS

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
, 2020 at 4:07 PM John H. Reinhardt via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: On 3/30/2020 1:37 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk wrote: > > Bill, >      I have the APL-11 V2.1 source files on a RL02 disk image. I will make it available at http://www.rsx11m.com/

Re: REL APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 3/30/2020 1:37 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk wrote: Bill, I have the APL-11 V2.1 source files on a RL02 disk image. I will make it available at http://www.rsx11m.com/apl11.zip <http://www.rsx11m.com/apl11.zip> Once you mount the disk image with Simh, the are two ready to ru

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
I don't have an easy way to dump the ROMs at the moment. TTFN - Guy On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 13:49 -0600, Eric Smith wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:24 AM Guy Sotomayor via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I have a DEC Writer III with the APL character set ROM and the APL > >

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:24 AM Guy Sotomayor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I have a DEC Writer III with the APL character set ROM and the APL > keyboard! Just need to hook it up to something that has APL on it > and will generate the correct character sequences. ;-) > Cool!

REL APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Mark Matlock via cctalk
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:58:46 -0400 > From: Bill Gunshannon <mailto:bill.gunshan...@hotmail.com>> > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> > Subject: APL-11 > Message-ID: > >

REL APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Mark Matlock via cctalk
Bill, The APL-11 files on DECUS RSX85A are not a complete distribution but a modified version that was intended to run under I/D on M+. I have the APL-11 V2.1 source files on a RL02 disk image. I will make it available at http://www.rsx11m.com/apl11.zip Once you mount the disk image

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Mar 30, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > wrote: > > On 3/30/20 12:34 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> On 3/30/20 7:58 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: >>> Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? >> APL-11 was released

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/30/20 12:34 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 3/30/20 7:58 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? APL-11 was released through DECUS. Here is the RSX-11 version http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RSX-11/freeware/decus/rsx85a/370360

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/30/20 7:58 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? APL-11 was released through DECUS. Here is the RSX-11 version http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RSX-11/freeware/decus/rsx85a/370360/

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
; But now another language of interest has reared its ugly head. :-) > > > > Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? Manual claims it > > runs on all of the PDP-11 OSes and it is another language from > > my past that I haven't touched (other than to read some pro

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
of the tape for APL-11? Manual claims it runs on all of the PDP-11 OSes and it is another language from my past that I haven't touched (other than to read some programs out of curiosity) in more than two decades. Oh neat! Be sure you have the special keyboard and character set for it! e.g. just

Re: APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Diane Bruce via cctalk
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:58:46AM -0400, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > Haven't given up on DIBOL. May try installing the RT-11 version and > see if it runs. > > But now another language of interest has reared its ugly head. :-) > > Anybody have an image o

APL-11

2020-03-30 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Haven't given up on DIBOL. May try installing the RT-11 version and see if it runs. But now another language of interest has reared its ugly head. :-) Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? Manual claims it runs on all of the PDP-11 OSes and it is another language from my past