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Howdy, folks!
I was a bit surprised that no mention was made of the APL*STAR programming language on the Control Data STAR supercomputer (evolved into the ETA 10 super). A description of the language can be found here:APL STAR reference manual
It's interesting from a historical standpoint because the original STAR-100 super was a wide-bandwidth pipelined vector processor. Scalar operations were essentially performed as vectors of length 1. What killed performance was the startup time for a vector operation. Something that Gene Amdahl said on the subject eludes my memory at the time. Later versions of the hardware included a dedicated scalar unit.[1]
63.155.119.22 (talk)21:18, 15 January 2021 (UTC)Chuck[reply]
I created a Keyman keyboard for APL.[1][2]92.9.35.203 (talk)09:38, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Is Snap! really based on APL? Is it vandalism?89.67.244.199 (talk)13:21, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
