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Date offered as standalone software?
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== Download link == | |||
The link to download Sharp APL isn't to the modern SAX, but rather to an ancient IBM mainframe emulator running an ancient Sharp APL. It needs a 16-bit DOS environment, and thus cannot be run under 64-bit Windows. Works under DOSBox. [[User:Adám Brudzewsky|Adám Brudzewsky]] ([[User talk:Adám Brudzewsky|talk]]) 12:54, 6 November 2019 (UTC) | The link to download Sharp APL isn't to the modern SAX, but rather to an ancient IBM mainframe emulator running an ancient Sharp APL. It needs a 16-bit DOS environment, and thus cannot be run under 64-bit Windows. Works under DOSBox. [[User:Adám Brudzewsky|Adám Brudzewsky]] ([[User talk:Adám Brudzewsky|talk]]) 12:54, 6 November 2019 (UTC) | ||
== Date offered as standalone software == | |||
The year when in-house (as opposed to time-shared) SHARP APL was first offered seems pretty hard to nail down. [[Eric Iverson]]'s "The Integration of APL into the Larger World of Data Processing" ([[IPSA '80]]) says "Around 1976 it became clear to us at SHARP that although the APL time-sharing service bureau business would continue to prosper, it was in some respects very limited." It has no date when they finished the in-house product, although it says shared variables were added to SHARP in 1978 and that they were considered a requirement, so I think 1978 is a lower bound. It was definitely in use by 1980. It's possible [[Dick Lathwell]]'s "SHARP APL as a Distributed Program Product" from [[IPSA '78]] will have some answers. | |||