Another weekend haul story

At 05:20 PM 5/27/97 GMT, you wrote: UCSD Pascal system compiled to an intermediate "P-Code" which required a virtual machine (p-code interpreter) to run. this gives you platform independence. it seems all good ideas come back to haunt us - this is exactly how Java works of course (except we have Java virtual machines instead of p-code interpreters). Since there were performance concerns there actually was a "Pascal engine" which executed native P-code (again like Sun's java-based processors of today). Now a pascal engine would seem to be a real collectible! - i don't think many were sold. unfortunately UCSD Pascal was wiped out along with CP/M and a lot of other good stuff when DOS swept the world. I used to run UCSD Pascal on a system called a "Terak" - anyone ever see one of these? they were pretty cool (wish i had one now). It was LSI-11 based and could run DEC real time OSes as well (can't remember which ones). I used to have 8" floppies for this with all the source code for UCSD pascal and tools (it was all originally in the public domain I think since it was university based). unfortunately i didn't have the foresight to transfer to a more modern media and I have no idea where this all is now. - glenn +=========================================================+ | Glenn F. Roberts, Falls Church, VA | Comments are my own and not the opinion of my employer | groberts(a)mitre.org