Mike I was thinking operating systems and the early launch version IBM PC, but yes once the hardware caught up Turbo Pascal was a popular program now that I think about it. So I guess the PC versions just needed more horsepower and some useful libraries. But Pascal never matched C Bill
On Thu, May 9, 2024, 8:08 AM Mike Loewen via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2024, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > > > Without doing the research before asking, there was the UCSD p-System > > Pascal for IBM PC which came out very early in the history of the IBM PC. > > It was not very popular. The SAGE II that had native Pascal (68000) was > > not a popular machine. Waterloo Pascal on the SuperPet....Pascal never > > really made it on the microcomputer platform did it? > > I can't quote numbers, but Borland's Turbo Pascal was quite popular on > both > CP/M machines and IBM PC and clones. > > > Mike Loewen mloe...@cpumagic.scol.pa.us > Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ >
