¢ APi27, the S Q L relational database processor for D B 2 ¢ AP144, a p r o g r a m m a b l e i n t e r f a c e to t h e X Window System to pipe the output o f one process to the input of another. This style of using "other" routines, to speed things up (processing or programming) is the w a y it's done in Unix--for example, on large files, Unix's Quick Sort runs 100 times faster than ~ and doesn't get W S F U L L . M y final c o m m e n t is that our group had enough confidence in the beta test version of APL2/6000 Release 2, and enough interest in its n e w capabilities, that w e switched to it early and relied on it to support our research and development projects. W e were not disappointed. ¢ Installation Installation is a breeze in AIX. IBM's S M I T utility asks a few questions and you're done. I w a s installing from tape, but I believe the actual release is on three diskettes,
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