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After reading about MUSIC/SP I found out that it had an APL interpreter/compiler; but I couldn't find much information about its implementation, i.e. which subset of features are supported, etc other than it seems to be based on VS APL ( )
Does anyone has more information, and/or could help me get MUSIC/SP running on linux, with networking, does VS APL or MUSIC/SP require a license?
Thank you for reading.
 

Hello Jerome,

To my knowledge, VS APL is a copyright product and it is not available on the MUSIC/SP 6.2 Demo.
Peter Coghlan wrote an experimental Hercules update to provide TCP/IP to MUSIC/SP, check it here:
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http://software.beyondthepale.ie/hercules/
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Cheers,
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Rene FERLAND, Montreal
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From my reading of the MUSIC documentation, there were TWO versions of APL - one was specific to Music/SP, the other was VS-APL from IBM.

The APL version from IBM was considered better or more complete; at least that is what I think was implied.

I might have read this in the online help files? Or am I mistaken?

Cordially

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Ibanes" <jibanes@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:22:07 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [H390-MUSIC] APL

After reading about MUSIC/SP I found out that it had an APL interpreter/compiler; but I couldn't find much information about its implementation, i.e. which subset of features are supported, etc other than it seems to be based on VS APL ( )
Does anyone has more information, and/or could help me get MUSIC/SP running on linux, with networking, does VS APL or MUSIC/SP require a license?
Thank you for reading.
_._,_._,_
 

Patrick,

You are right, the documentation talks about two APL : VSAPL and ?an implementation of the IBM APL S/360 Type III program?. As far as I can see, none are available on MUSIC/SP 6.2 Demo.

Cheers,

Rene FERLAND, Montreal
 

Jerome,

If it is of any interest to you, I know of two systems running on Hercules that have APL:

MVT:?
MTS:?

Cheers,

Rene FERLAND, Montreal

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