Interesting article on UCSD Pascal team annual reunion

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Thu Sep 16 20:59:13 2004

emanuel stiebler wrote:
> John Foust wrote:
>
>> http://alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol1no3/features/pascal.htm

> "Some in the UCSD crowd remain convinced that their software was
> technologically superior to Bill Gates's MS-DOS, and still mourn that
> outcome."
>
> so, please put it open source ...

Well for back then I would say , all was just as flakey.
The only thing pascal was 'is portable' ( barely ) on the
8 bit machines. The only real NICE languages I have used
where BASIC/09 and Pascal for OS/9 for the 6809 cpu.
Even if you get the PASCAL OS do you get the compiler source?
Ben.
Received on Thu Sep 16 2004 - 20:59:13 BST

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