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> compared to C, which was starting to show up on micros such as Z-80s running CP/M I had some very limited access to CP/M z80 machines. Probably somewhere bet
by nottorp 2y ago
> compared to C, which was starting to show up on micros such as Z-80s running CP/M
I had some very limited access to CP/M z80 machines. Probably somewhere between 86-90. All I remember about the C compiler they had is that I had to swap 2 or 3 floppies to produce a linked executable, so it sounds similar to this UCSD Pascal.
My first real contact with Pascal was Turbo Pascal, and that ran loops around any other compiler I had access to back then...
- PaulHoule 2y agoI had a Coco with 2 floppies, I could compile C without any swapping. OS-9 was a real multitasking operating system, I could log into it with the keyboard and mouse and two serial ports at the same time (one with a UART, another with the terrible bit banger) The latter wasn't too bad with the portable DEC printing terminal I got that that was surplus at a credit agency. UCSD Pascal was one of very few compiled languages you could get for the Apple ][ and other 6502 machines because the virtual machine was an answer to problem of code generation for that terrible instruction set with insufficient registers and addressing modes.