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Turbo Pascal 3.x - under 40K, w/ basic text editor built-in. But could only create .COM files, not .EXEs. Lightning-fast DX.

kragen 2y ago
there's no such thing as a .exe file
- cowboylowrez 2y ago
  no, I've seen them, they exist.
  - kragen 2y ago
    you can't run them on cp/m
    - cowboylowrez 2y ago
      TIL! so if I wanted to save an exe to cpm, would "3x3" as a file extension work instead? are there other prohibitted file name extensions?
      - kragen 2y ago
        oh, you can store them on a cp/m disk, you just can't run them under cp/m
- fuzztester 2y ago
  Of course there was, and is.
  - kragen 2y ago
    nope, totally not a thing in cp/m, sorry
    - fuzztester 2y ago
      Replying a bit late ... I never said a word about CP/M, sorry. Referring to my original comment that you replied to, I was talking about Turbo Pascal on DOS, which (DOS, not Turbo Pascal) did have EXE files, from early versions that I had used. But the TP version I mentioned could only create .COM files. In fact, I remember the DEBUG utility was DEBUG.EXE, again from early DOS versions, although it was possibly DEBUG.COM earlier.
      - kragen 2y ago
        > Referring to my original comment that you replied to, I was talking about Turbo Pascal on DOS, you posted that comment in reply to stevekemp talking about the c compilers he was trying on his cp/m emulator; maybe you clicked the wrong reply link plausibly early versions of tp could only create .com files because they originally came from cp/m before being ported to ms-dog > it was possibly DEBUG.COM earlier yes, though the cp/m version was ddt.com, with a rather rebarbative ui reminiscent not of ddt but of teco
        fuzztester 2y ago
        >you posted that comment in reply to stevekemp talking about the c compilers he was trying on his cp/m emulator; maybe you clicked the wrong reply link No, I clicked the right reply link that I meant to. But I see the issue now. Although his context was small sized compilers on CP/M, my (implied) context was not. Mine was just small sized compilers, period. My comment about TP 3 was in that context, and was not referring to CP/M. IOW, I was just saying, TP 3 was another small compiler (and I omitted saying that it was on DOS). I did not even know that TP had existed on CP/M, although I had used that OS briefly, before DOS, and had actually used a Pascal compiler on it, in a programming course I was attending. I remember the machine had those big 8-inch floppy disks. (1) But that was not the TP compiler, it was some other one, I don't remember which. So I can understand why you thought I was talking about CP/M, and hence said that it had no EXE files. (1) Or it might have been an MP/M machine, because I vaguely remember that we had to log in to it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP/M https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP/M

kragen 2y ago

there's no such thing as a .exe file

cowboylowrez 2y ago
no, I've seen them, they exist.
- kragen 2y ago
  you can't run them on cp/m
  - cowboylowrez 2y ago
    TIL! so if I wanted to save an exe to cpm, would "3x3" as a file extension work instead? are there other prohibitted file name extensions?
    - kragen 2y ago
      oh, you can store them on a cp/m disk, you just can't run them under cp/m
fuzztester 2y ago
Of course there was, and is.
- kragen 2y ago
  nope, totally not a thing in cp/m, sorry
  - fuzztester 2y ago
    Replying a bit late ... I never said a word about CP/M, sorry. Referring to my original comment that you replied to, I was talking about Turbo Pascal on DOS, which (DOS, not Turbo Pascal) did have EXE files, from early versions that I had used. But the TP version I mentioned could only create .COM files. In fact, I remember the DEBUG utility was DEBUG.EXE, again from early DOS versions, although it was possibly DEBUG.COM earlier.
    - kragen 2y ago
      > Referring to my original comment that you replied to, I was talking about Turbo Pascal on DOS, you posted that comment in reply to stevekemp talking about the c compilers he was trying on his cp/m emulator; maybe you clicked the wrong reply link plausibly early versions of tp could only create .com files because they originally came from cp/m before being ported to ms-dog > it was possibly DEBUG.COM earlier yes, though the cp/m version was ddt.com, with a rather rebarbative ui reminiscent not of ddt but of teco
      - fuzztester 2y ago
        >you posted that comment in reply to stevekemp talking about the c compilers he was trying on his cp/m emulator; maybe you clicked the wrong reply link No, I clicked the right reply link that I meant to. But I see the issue now. Although his context was small sized compilers on CP/M, my (implied) context was not. Mine was just small sized compilers, period. My comment about TP 3 was in that context, and was not referring to CP/M. IOW, I was just saying, TP 3 was another small compiler (and I omitted saying that it was on DOS). I did not even know that TP had existed on CP/M, although I had used that OS briefly, before DOS, and had actually used a Pascal compiler on it, in a programming course I was attending. I remember the machine had those big 8-inch floppy disks. (1) But that was not the TP compiler, it was some other one, I don't remember which. So I can understand why you thought I was talking about CP/M, and hence said that it had no EXE files. (1) Or it might have been an MP/M machine, because I vaguely remember that we had to log in to it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP/M https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP/M