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Building an APL2 X-Windows interface for VM and AIX with a general APL2-to-C interface
- Source :
- APL
- Publication Year :
- 1991
- Publisher :
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1991.
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Abstract
- This paper describes APL2/X, an interface between X-Windows and APL2, designed and built at the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center. It currently runs under VM/CMS and AIX. The APL2/X VM version of the interface uses the APL2 associated processor 11 to communicate with X. The APL2/X AIX version uses a new auxiliary processor, AP144, to achieve the same functionality.APL2/X enables all of the X-Windows Xlib calls and data-structures for use from the APL2 environment. In so doing, it enables APL2 to make use of a true windowing environment. Several APL2 sample programs using the interface have been coded to illustrate and validate the interface.The basic X-Windows Xlib is actually a large application written in C. APL2/X has therefore been built upon, as well as heavily influenced, a general APL2-to-C interface that runs on various platforms: APL2 under VM/CMS and MVS/TSO, APL2 for the RISC System/6000™ under AIX, and APL2/PC under PC/DOS.
Details
- ISSN :
- 01636006
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4819b80cd8ff6373e35f8ce39291939e