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
