22 Feb
2009
22 Feb
'09
3:06 p.m.
On Sunday 22 February 2009 05:57:46 pm Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 22 Feb 2009 at 15:35, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I do recall seeing it in an ad not too long ago and thinking so too. Cheap is
good. Mostly. :-)
Isn't JRT Pascal the one that had really
horrible reviews in the
magazines back when? Pournelle, maybe, though I couldn't say for sure
as it's been a while.
It *was* pretty buggy and very S-L-O-W, particularly when run from 8"
SSSD floppy on a 2MHz 8080. But it allowed for very large programs
by using some sort of program segmentation (swapped to/from disk) and
had a curious calling sequence, which turned up the V20 snake.
But it *was* cheap--something like $24.95. I still have my original
floppy from them. I have no idea what became of JRT--ISTR, the company
name was the
initials of the author's name.
Borland came along? Not that I was ever a fan of Pascal, though. I remember
going to some meeting of a bunch of computer nuts way back in 1978 sometime,
in Philly, and a guy there was all fired up about it, I guess because there
wasn't much in the way of higher-level languages available around that time.
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