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Subject:	Re: Odd request
From:	Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:07:41 -0700
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Re:

> It was never offered on MPE/V.  IIRC, the last OS which included
> APL was MPE IV Q-Delta-2 for the Series II/III systems -- IOW, it
> wasn't on MPE V/R (see below).
>
> APL was **NEVER** released nor supported on any HP-IB system (S30,
> S33, S40/42/52, S44/48/58, S64/68/70) which supported MPE V/P, V/E,
> or greater.
>

While not released, APL was ported to the HP 3000/44.  Somewhere in the
late 1980s, I saw a couple of the APL firmware chips at the desk
of (IIRC) Leon Leong (the guy who ported the firmware to the Grizzly (44) CPU).

AFAIK, HP dropped APL like a hot rock as soon as they won the lawsuit
brought against them over APL's slow performance.

--
Stan Sieler
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