I have a source code tape for Pascal on a CDC 6600 from CDC in France. I am not sure which version it is.
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:43 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 5/9/24 15:10, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > >>> Turbo-Pascal was quite popular. At the annnouncement of it (West > >>> Coast Computer Faire), Phillipe Kahn (Borland) was so inundated with > >>> "yeah, but what about C?" questions, that by the end of the first > >>> day, "Turbo C is coming soon" > > > > On Thu, 9 May 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > >> I learned on Turbo C. It was a fantastic little IDE. > > > > I have heard that Pascal was originally developed for TEACHING > programming. > > Turbo Pascal makes that easier. > > The first versions of Pascal lacked any I/O specification. > > About a decade ago, I retrieved an early version of Pascal (source) > written on the CDC 6000 from a batch of tapes from UIUC: > > (********************************************************* > * * > * * > * COMPILER FOR PASCAL 6000 - 3.4 * > * ****************************** * > * * > * * > * RELEASE 2 MARCH 1976 * > * * > * * > * * > * CDC SCIENTIFIC CHAR SET VERSION * > * (00B AND 63B ARE TREATED IDENTICALLY) * > * * > * AUTHOR% URS AMMANN * > * INSTITUT FUER INFORMATIK * > * EIDG. TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE * > * CH-8006 ZUERICH * > * * > *********************************************************) > > Apparently, the collection had a listing, but not machine-readable > source code. That turned up on one of my tapes, so I forwarded it on. > > You can see the whole shebang at > http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/cdc-6000-pascal-compilers/ > > I've written code in Pascal, as well as Modula-2. Never liked > it--seemed to be a bit awkward for the low-level stuff that I was doing. > > --Chuck > > -- Michael Thompson
