25 Feb
2024
25 Feb
'24
4:01 p.m.
He meant to say Prolog, not Pascal.
Regardless if you want to alleviate all the fuss and mess of running 16 bit wares on
modern h/w, just look for a 32 bit cast off. Many appropriate mobos can be had on epay for
a song.
Now no one I know wants to spend the next 40 years writing 16 bit apps. But if it
can't be (easily) done otherwise, it can be done on raw metal cheaply.
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On Sunday, February 25th, 2024 at 6:41 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I wrote a large application in Turbo Pascal in 1996 or
so,
and it had been cast adrift since then. The computer it ran
on was getting old and I was worried it would die, and then
I discovered FPC (Free Pascal Compiler). It was designed to
port over Turbo Pascal and DEC Pascal programs, and took the
separate compilation directives like uses and $I. I was
able to get that program running on a Linux system in a few
days.
Jon