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Re: IBM 1130 (was Re: musical processing)

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From: mcg... Tim McGuire
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 15:23
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In article <1990Jul14.2...@nmt.edu> jo...@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:
>Years later I heard a rumor that explained how they could
>generate a solid new APL implementation in such a short
>time.  The 5100 used the IBM 1130 instruction set as its
>internal micro-machine!  So its implementation had the
>robustness that comes from many years of being tortured by
>canny young programmers in small colleges all over the
>country.

I remember the APL implementation on the 1130.  You essentially had to use
the 1130 as a "personal computer".  It didn't make one very popular with the
FORTRAN crowd who were used to batch processing.  Anyone out there who 
actually used 1130 APL?

Tim McGuire
mcg...@cs.tamu.edu


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Subject: Re: IBM 1130 (was Re: musical processing)
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