APL and Graphics

Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 35

The Association meeting on Friday 10th January was well-attended, bearing in mind the normal lack of enthusiasm for an Annual General Meeting, and was marked by the announcement of an Acornsoft APL for the BBC Micro. The official business of the day was followed by three brief talks on the general theme of APL and graphics.

Chris Lee of APL*Plus introduced Release 3.0 of APL*Plus/PC, which runs with several different graphics cards, including the IBM colour card and the Hercules monochrome card, to give business or free-form graphics. It achieves this with a veritable shoal of quad-functions — for more details see the APL*Plus handouts.

Graeme Robertson of I.P.Sharp Associates followed with a slide show of "A Graphic Vision of APL Data and Functions". He has provided us with some examples of his slides in the next article.

The meeting ended with Mr. Martin Martin demonstrating an example of an APL system which employed the IBM 3270 Graphics attachment to drive a circuit-design application.