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OP, I’m super curious as to what inspired you to ask.
by wk_end 6y ago
OP, I’m super curious as to what inspired you to ask.
- andyjohnson0 6y agoMe too. This is a supremely HN ask.
- wideareanetwork 6y agoI’m planning to write a text based social network for vintage computing enthusiasts, for CP/M. It’ll be written in Turbo Pascal. It’s my path to $2B. Don’t tell anyone my idea.
- Zilcho 6y agoWrite a windows like gui for it, and follow the path dos took upwards.
- throwaway81523 6y agoThat sounds kind of cool, but although the binaries of Turbo Pascal are now downloadable from Borland's successor at no charge, the source code was never released. That makes the proposition less interesting than it would otherwise be. BDS C source code was released into the public domain a few years ago, so that might be an alternative. Or you could use MSDOS/FreeDOS that would give you a lot more flexibility while staying a similar text-based spirit.
- browningstreet 6y agoGreat. Time to buy up a working Osborne 1, then I can be 14 all over again.