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'''Syracuse University''' was the second institution outside IBM (after [[wikipedia:SUNY Binghamton|SUNY Binghamton]]) to have APL installed,<ref name="foster">[[Ray Polivka]] and Jon McGrew. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/216800.216805 "A Quote Quad Interview: Garth Foster"]. Quote Quad Volume 26 Number 1. 1995-09.</ref> and a major user of APL in the 1970s and 1980s. Its Minnowbrook conference center is the site of most [[APL Implementer's Workshop]]s. Notable APL programmers at Syracuse include professor [[Garth Foster]] and alumni [[Jim Brown]] and [[Roy Sykes]]. | '''Syracuse University''' was the second institution outside IBM (after [[wikipedia:SUNY Binghamton|SUNY Binghamton]]) to have APL installed,<ref name="foster">[[Ray Polivka]] and Jon McGrew. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/216800.216805 "A Quote Quad Interview: Garth Foster"]. Quote Quad Volume 26 Number 1. 1995-09.</ref> and a major user of APL in the 1970s and 1980s. Its Minnowbrook conference center is the site of most [[APL Implementer's Workshop]]s. Notable APL programmers at Syracuse include professor [[Garth Foster]] and alumni [[Jim Brown]] and [[Roy Sykes]]. | ||
APL use at Syracuse began in late 1967, when about 20 professors and graduate students used a terminal connected by phone to connect to [[IBM]]'s [[APL\360]] installation at the [[ | APL use at Syracuse began in late 1967, when about 20 professors and graduate students used a terminal connected by phone to connect to [[IBM]]'s [[APL\360]] installation at the [[Watson Research Center]] in [[wikipedia:Yorktown Heights, New York|Yorktown Heights]]. By 1968, thanks in part to the efforts of [[Garth Foster]]<ref name="foster"/>, the university ran APL on [[wikipedia:DOS/360|DOS/360]] for four hours a day. In 1969 the system was ported to SUOS (the Syracuse University Operating System), a derivative of [[wikipedia:OS/360 and successors#MFT|MFT]], and expanded to full-time access, with 34 terminals. In the early 1970s the system was again changed, this time to [[STSC]]'s [[APL*PLUS]]. This installation was extended with a File Subsystem and many other custom features. It was highly successful: by 1978 the system had 7,300 active accounts, ran 30,000 tasks/month, and stored 5,400 workspaces and 4,000 files. In addition to its use in teaching courses and student assignments and projects, the system was used to generate exams, in administration such as student billing, and by students for a ride sharing service and an apartment and room rental guide among other applications. In March 1980 the system was moved to [[SHARP APL]], [[backwards compatibility|maintaining support]] for these applications. SHARP had been chosen over [[APL.SV]] and [[wikipedia:Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]'s APLSF because of its better compatibility with the old system, and over a newer version of [[APL*PLUS]] because of [[IPSA]]'s better support offer.<ref>Dana E. Cartwright and Phyllis A. Kent. "SHARP APL Syracuse" at [[IPSA '80]].</ref> | ||
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