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Subject: Re: Assignment Versus Equality
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On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 05:48:26 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody
<rustompmody@gmail.com> declaimed the following:


>In the past, APL's ? may not have been practicable (ie
>- without committing to IBM... which meant
>- $$$ 
>- Also it was a hardware commitment (trackball?)
>- etc
>
	APL was available on the Xerox Sigma under CP/V.

	For "real" APL one did need to use one of the rare Tektronix storage
display terminals that had the APL character set -- but many APLs were
designed to also parse words... $RHO instead of the greek rho character,
for example. This allowed APL to be used on plain (ASCII) terminals.
-- 
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