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Oh, Turbo Pascal had those Turbovision-powered ASCII shadowed floating editing windows in 1993 or so, and it flied on a 386 CPU... the P3 would be a screamer fo
by pantulis 9y ago
Oh, Turbo Pascal had those Turbovision-powered ASCII shadowed floating editing windows in 1993 or so, and it flied on a 386 CPU... the P3 would be a screamer for that ;)
- agumonkey 9y agoThanks for that input, I was very curious to know about performance on much older hardware. This makes TP's worht even higher. 600kB total .. can you believe that ?
- pantulis 9y agoTurbo Pascal had more tricks, it could compile to memory (at least in version 5, if memory serves well). Mind you, not a RAM disk, it could compile and run a MSDOS .COM file from memory itself. Following the filenames during compilation was difficult, as they passed so fast (20Mhz 386sx with 2MB). The compilers and IDEs from that era were truly pieces of art. I also remember TopSpeed Modula-2 that also included its own task scheduler for real time DOS (using clock interrupts, I guess).