On 2024-05-09 09:46, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2024, 5:39 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
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?
Not until TurboPascal... But it was only a few years until C emerged from
the language "street fight" as top dog... depending on what the universe of
microcomputers we're talking about.
I recall that MS sold a Pascal compiler, possibly from someone else. It
was very slow and buggy. I heard a story that to speed up disc access,
MS put FAT-manipulation code in the actual compiler and that
occasionally destroyed the FAT.
S.
