Communicating with APL

Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 48

This meeting took place in London on 27 March 1984, and featured three speakers.

Richard Nabavi of MicroAPL described an example of a mixed Ethernet network of local microcomputers. He has thoughtfully documented his seminar and we reprint this overleaf.

John Pym of Inner Product showed how Prestel could be used as a publicly available networking system. His theme was suspiciously similar to his paper for last year’s APL Business Technology Conference, but we enjoyed his brand of offbeat humour so much that we’ve included his paper, after one or two tidying up operations.

Finally Tim Perry of APL People spoke about the use of APL within IBM, a talk that I have documented based on my notes of his presentation.