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I used the P-code based UCSD Pascal on my Apple ][+ and it was pretty interesting, you could even compile Fortran to run on the virtual P machine. However, whe
by zwieback 6y ago
I used the P-code based UCSD Pascal on my Apple ][+ and it was pretty interesting, you could even compile Fortran to run on the virtual P machine.
However, when I got my hands on Turbo Pascal it was one of those eye-opening moments I'll never forget. It was such a smooth experience, I couldn't believe it was running on my dinky 8 bit computer, although it was a bit sad it was running on the Z80 and not the 6502, the best microprocessor of all times, ever.
- vram22 6y agoI too loved programming on the 6502 processor. I did a fair amount of assembly language programming on micros that had it, like the BBC micro and Commodore 64, very early, when learning programming. I liked its instruction set, with all those addressing modes, such as indirect indexed or vice versa. Later when I learned a bit of 8088/8086 assembly, the latter seemed more complex, with its segment:offset format of specifying addresses.