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Pascal is a lot broader language and won't fit in sub 16KB of ROM (even if you exclude monitor [call-151])
by xxs 5mo ago
Pascal is a lot broader language and won't fit in sub 16KB of ROM (even if you exclude monitor [call-151])
- amichail 5mo agoMaybe they could have implemented a useful subset of Pascal.
- bitwize 5mo agoAtari 8-bits had a cut-down version of ALGOL called Action! which is now open source: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/217770-action-source-code/page/2/#comment-3168885 https://forums.atariage.com/topic/217770-action-source-code/...
- WillAdams 5mo agoA subset of it? I have a copy of "Tiny" Pascal by Supersoft from 1979 on a cassette tape which was licensed to Tandy Corp and which would load onto a 16KB TRS-80 Model III and allow a bit of room for programming. One of the great regrets of my life is that when I was doing so and when it would have mattered, I was unaware of the patch for this which would have allowed it to be saved as an executable to a TRS-DOS disk....