On Wednesday 24 July 2002 12:07 pm, David Boyes wrote:
> The biggest pSystem product I can remember was the Apple II game Wizardry.
> That was all written in Pascal, and used the pSystem setup extensively. It
> was a really good example of writing for a virtual CPU that predates Java
> by at least
> As long as you're building a new version port it to S/390 :)
There is a pSystem emulator written in Pascal available from
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/psystem/. Running that through p2c produces a
working p-Machine emulator, after hacking some minor filename parsing stuff.
The resulting emu
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 17:07, David Boyes wrote:
> The biggest pSystem product I can remember was the Apple II game Wizardry.
> That was all written in Pascal, and used the pSystem setup extensively. It
> was a really good example of writing for a virtual CPU that predates Java by
> at least 2 deca
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Wow.
Wow. I dug in the closet and found a copy of the UCSD pSystem distribution
for the original IBM PC. Still runs (doesn't know what to do with more than
640K of RAM, but boy! Fast compilation!), and is amazingly responsive on a
900Mhz machine. Doesn't have weird timing loop problems with keyboard i
On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 21:58:47 +0100, Alan Cox
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>On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 19:26, John Alvord wrote:
>> The original IBM PC had three operating systems at anouncement.
>> PC-DOS, CP/M, and a UCSD P-system (interpreted pascal or something).
>> We know what happened, no need to
