Interesting article on UCSD Pascal team annual reunion

[emanuel stiebler]

ben franchuk wrote:
> emanuel stiebler wrote:
> 
>> John Foust wrote:
>>
>>> http://alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol1no3/features/pascal.htm
> 
> 
>> "Some in the UCSD crowd remain convinced that their software was 
>> technologically superior to Bill Gates's MS-DOS, and still mourn that 
>> outcome."
>>
>> so, please put it open source ...
> 
> 
> Well for back then I would say , all was just as flakey.
> The only thing pascal  was  'is portable' ( barely ) on the
> 8 bit machines. 

We had the whole developers kit at some time, and ported it to a mc68k.
That was VERY easy, and I was really impressed with the performance and 
how easy it was to use (AFTER that I had my first experience with it on 
an apple;-)) Even the graphic part was nice (we had a bitmapped display 
on it).
IIRC, the pcode interpreter had a 64k limit on data and code, but 
imageine what you can do with 64k of pcode ;-)

And, imagine how easy it is to make a multi-user system, if you have 
enough memory, and could switch just the data/code segments ...

cheers