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== History == | == History == | ||
The machine was conceived at a New Years party where Sanford Friedman, of Boston-based Planning Economics, introduced his colleague James L. Ryan to John Dobbs of Analogic Corporation. Analogic was interested in making their array processors easy to program. The [[wikipedia:array processor|array processor]]s were typically attached to a [[wikipedia:Digital Equipment Corporation|Digital Equipment Corporation]] [[wikipedia:VAX|VAX]] and were programmed in [[ | The machine was conceived at a New Years party where Sanford Friedman, of Boston-based Planning Economics, introduced his colleague James L. Ryan to John Dobbs of Analogic Corporation. Analogic was interested in making their array processors easy to program. The [[wikipedia:array processor|array processor]]s were typically attached to a [[wikipedia:Digital Equipment Corporation|Digital Equipment Corporation]] [[wikipedia:VAX|VAX]] and were programmed in [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]] using a large library of subroutines which loaded and then executed microcode into the Analogic array processor. Friedman and Ryan introduced Dobbs to APL and suggested that it would be a much easier vehicle for programming the array processors. The project was named in honour of a paper by [[Phil Abrams]]. | ||
Development was done between 1982 and 1986 by Friedman and Ryan, together with Ron Murray, Gordon Lassar, Reed Shilts, | Development was done between 1982 and 1986 by Friedman and Ryan, together with Ron Murray, Gordon Lassar, Reed Shilts, |