9 May
2024
9 May
'24
5:45 a.m.
On 05/09/2024 7:24 AM CDT Bill Degnan via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Mike
I was thinking operating systems and the early launch version IBM PC, but
yes once the hardware caught up Turbo Pascal was a popular program now that
I think about it. So I guess the PC versions just needed more horsepower
and some useful libraries. But Pascal never matched C
Bill
My perception is that UCSD P system was quite popular in the late 70s on Apple and other
systems. Then when the university turned it over to commercial marketing (SofTech?), the
silly games played turned a lot of people off. Like trying to revoke previously granted
licenses and charging "too much."
I suspect that left a bad taste in a lot of mouths that might otherwise have been
interested. But I was a distant observer at the time; I couldn't afford more than my
ZX-81 and VIC-20.
Will
Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for children to be
always and forever explaining things to them,
Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince