9 May
2024
9 May
'24
10:46 p.m.
On 2024-05-09 1:23 p.m., John via cctalk wrote:
And every one maxed out with small model for the IBM PC,
and 48K for CP/M.
Did any one make a REAL TIME OS the 386?
Pascal never
really made it on the microcomputer platform did it?
I can be convinced otherwise but it seems like
microcomputing Pascal
was more of a staging environment for then upload into a production
mainframe/mini
Pascal was the language of choice over at Apple in the original MacOS
days, and as Mike has noted Turbo Pascal was popular enough on the PC;
it was more, I think, that the UCSD-style language-environment-as-OS
paradigm never caught on in the microcomputer world. Early consumer
micros of course had ROM BASIC, but once you got past that to a
reasonably full-featured operating system, there was no compelling
reason for it to be tightly coupled to one particular language/compiler
when it could just as easily treat compilers as Yet Another Program and
support arbitrarily many.