On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 04:51, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > DJGPP v1 (circa 1994?) supported the Desqview/X SDK libs. But I never > developed for (or used) DV/X.
Aha, OK. I didn't even know it existed back then. I suggest, though, that given that the subject is menuing app launchers for FreeDOS, maybe leave programming languages out of the discussion? > I said "based upon ETH Zurich's Pascal P sources". It was a series of > four. It was hard to find a good reference, but Gosling definitely had > experience with some variation of the Pascal P-machine. ETH Zurich > only did P1, P2, P3, P4. UCSD was based upon P2 with extensions. P5 > came much much later (late 2000s), derived from P4, from an American > author and added all the other features of ISO 7185 for a "full" > (classic) Pascal. Yes, Apple II borrowed from UCSD, but Lisa used > (modified?) P4. (A quick search says they licensed a 68000 compiler > from Silicon Valley Software based upon P4.) > > * https://www.standardpascal.org/PascalP.html My word. I did a bit of digging. It is a complicated and confusing family. Notably, the Wikipedia coverage is awful. Therer are links to Pascal-P but they just point back to the Pascal article which is no help at all. This *badly* needs work and as you seem interested and invested in this, I suggest you get in there and improve the coverage somewhat. Notably there are aritcles on Object Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Virtual Pascal and more, but no article on Pascal-P, none on the ISO standards or anything. I think step 1 is a clear family tree laying out the differences and where they forked off one another. Step 2 is clearly identifying which are active, maintained and used today. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
