APLUM

Has anybody found the source assembler for this?

On Jun 6, 2:25 am, APL Enthusiast <a...@swbell.net> wrote:
> Has anybody found the source assembler for this?

Sorry?!

On Jun 6, 2:25 am, APL Enthusiast <a...@swbell.net> wrote:
>
> > Has anybody found the source recipe for a plum?

http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m101602.htm#2

APL Enthusiast wrote:
> Has anybody found the source assembler for this?

do you mean the thing that ran on CDC machinery?

if so, what did you propose to run it one?

if not, perhaps you could be a bit more specific?

but, either way, I'm sorry I can't help -- I doubt if I've even
retained any APLUM documentation . . . /phil

For historical reasons.

phil chastney wrote:
> APL Enthusiast wrote:
>> Has anybody found the source assembler for this?
>
> do you mean the thing that ran on CDC machinery?
>
> if so, what did you propose to run it one?
>
> if not, perhaps you could be a bit more specific?
>
> but, either way, I'm sorry I can't help -- I doubt if I've even
> retained any APLUM documentation . . . /phil

there was a thread on this ng, some time ago, cross-posted to an
historically-oriented ng, where APLUM was definitely discussed

try Google, I guess, and see if you can turn up a more productive set of
contacts

I suspect you'll need to search the msgs, not just the headers

I wish you luck . . . /phil

Thanks.

Actually Ibeam2000 and I talked about this after that thread. Ends up
we hadn't talked in about 28 years. He still had notes I shared with him
from that time.

That forced me to look in an old folder and find out that I still had a
copy of "An APL Interpreter in Pascal" (from Byte Publications), an
associated article in Byte Magazine which preceded the contest and a
function dump of an APL advanced interpreter written in APL (missing key
variables though).

But no APLUM. Scanning the network, I found that Multics code had been
released and that copies of EMPL and MAPL source were available.

I also discovered from John E. Howland that the code for APL/V80 (aka
APL/Z80) source was probably not available. He identified:

"The old Vanguard Systems company was merged with another company at the
time (about 1982) that company was taken public on the NASDQ . That
company was not interested in APL/V80 (same as APL/Z80 but Zilog refused
the use of Z80 in defense of their trademark), but refused access to the
source. They were only interested in other Vanguard assets but did not
disclose there non-interest in APL/Z80 before the merger."


phil chastney wrote:
> there was a thread on this ng, some time ago, cross-posted to an
> historically-oriented ng, where APLUM was definitely discussed
>
> try Google, I guess, and see if you can turn up a more productive set of
> contacts
>
> I suspect you'll need to search the msgs, not just the headers
>
> I wish you luck . . . /phil

Your best bet would be to contact the Computer Science Department at UMass
Amherst, where APLUM was developed.

As was noted in another note in this thread, this code was developed for the
Control Data 6000/Cyber instruction set and is probably no longer
functional.

"APL Enthusiast" <ae@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Has anybody found the source assembler for this?

See
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tom-hunter/
for "Desktop CYBER Emulator". This comes courtesy of the
alt.folklore.computers newsgroup where I don't see any hit on "APLUM".
Curtis Jones