6 Sep
2004
6 Sep
'04
9:03 a.m.
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Scott Stevens wrote:
If the buyer wanted to run binaries on DOS 1.0 I have
the IBM Basic
Compiler 1.0 manual/diskette set here. I should someday build a
hello.com file of some sort and see if it runs on current Windows OSes.
I imagine the 1.0 developer tools are more scarce than the OS. I have
Pascal 1.0 also. It's all creaky old stuff, designed to do compiler
passes on 'high end' (for the time) dual floppy drive systems.
The FORTRAN 1.0, BASIC 1.0, etc. were written using the Pascal.
The author of the Pascal compiler (Bob Wallace) recommended
never using the Pascal run-time library.
The FORTRAN was OK for teaching beginning programming classes,
but the code that it produced was slower than interpreted BASIC.
The old tools are pretty easy to find. I have MASM 1.0 handy,
and could maybe dig out some of the others.