29 Nov
2000
29 Nov
'00
10:09 a.m.
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
Does no one remember that IBM peddled UCSD P System for the PC?
An operating system that made PC-DOS look good!
The PC version was really bad and sloer thant he z80 version.
The only weakness that UCSD really suffered is it was P-system,
It was a interpreter running pseudo code than that made it slow
(like java). Compared to NS* DOS it was far more complete and
advanced. It was plenty adaquate as a teaching platform for Pascal.
Allison
29 Nov
29 Nov
12:07 p.m.
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From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)
<cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
And it really didn't make PC-DOS look good. I've put a screen shot
of the UCSD P-system file manager prompt at:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/~korpela/gif/filer.gif.
You may remember what those letters stand for, but I don't.
It's the only OS I've ever used that made me long to go back
to Apple DOS 3.3.
Eric
Does no one remember that IBM peddled UCSD P System for the PC?
An operating system that made PC-DOS look good!
The PC version was really bad and sloer thant he z80 version. 
2:38 p.m.
At 06:07 PM 11/29/00 -0800, you wrote:
...
And it really didn't make PC-DOS look good. I've put a screen shot
of the UCSD P-system file manager prompt at:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/~korpela/gif/filer.gif.
You may remember what those letters stand for, but I don't.
...
For those not wanting to chase the link, it says:
Filer: G, S, N, L, R, C, T, D, Q [1.1]
Don't you remember? This was the security mechanism.
You had to play a game of hangman and win before you
could run the compiler. The person above obviously doesn't
know the key to hangman is the vowels.
:-)
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Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net
30 Nov
30 Nov
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