good book on Pascal

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Tue Oct 22 18:02:00 2002

>From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
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>> Of course, it isn't on a x86 machine so there may be
>> differences.
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>?
>what version are you talking about?

Hi Fred
 I'm not sure if this will help much because it was obviously
cross compiled to run on a Z8000. Here is what prints out:

Olivetti M20 Professional Computer Pascal Compiler Version 1.2

 There is a file listing some of the library references that
mentions that it is MS-Pascal. There is a librarian called
mlib.cmd.
 You know, I'd only ask about weird things.

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>> I am mostly interested in the kind of things
>> one would normally find in the object library that one
>> would use with this compiler. They mention that it is
>> a shared library with MS-FORTRAN. Information on FORTRAN
>> libraries might also be useful.
>> Thanks
>> Dwight
>
>The Microsoft/IBM FORTRAN was adequate for teaching FORTRAN 77. But the
>performance was AMAZING! It could actually take longer to run a benchmark
>like sieve of Erastothanes with compiled FORTRAN than with interpreted
>BASIC.

 I fear this may be similar. It takes 3 disk of code, just to run
the Pascal compiler ( 280K disk ). If this is any indication, I'd
suspect the final code isn't all that swift. I just want to play
with it a little.
Dwight

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>Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
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