Re: Apple ProDOS CP/M disk & file utility

[SynABit@kc.invalid (Dennis Doms)]

In article <9d3fro$t99$1@merope.saaf.se>, pausch@saaf.se (Paul
Schlyter) wrote:

>In article <3af53995$1@news.iprimus.com.au>,
>Mark Cummings <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote:
>>Paul,
>>
>>>> Universal File Converter (UFC) can do the 1st and part of the 2nd
>>>> requirement. UFC can transfer between 3.3, CP/M, ProDOS and Pascal. It's
>>>> a Pascal based program.
>>>
>>>Does UFC compile under Turbo Pascal on Apple CP/M ?
>>
>>
>>There is no source code, only the application. It's on a bootable Apple
>>Pascal 5.25" disk.
>
>:-)    ...apparently the word "Pascal" is ambiguous here...

Somewhat. :)

"Pascal" on the Apple II often refers to "UCSD Pascal", which includes
the UCSD Pascal Operating system and virtual machine environment. The
idea was that the Pascal compiled to pseudocode which ran on a virtual
processor and environment emulated by the OS (actually, I believe
there actually was a physical version of the "virtual" processor built
and marketed that could execute the "pseudocode" directly). That way
the compiled code was "portable" to other machines where the
supporting OS was available. (Obviously, if you needed and used
platform-specific features you compromised that portability.)

So most of the time, when Apple II users refer to "running under
Pascal", they probably mean the UCSD OS environment, not the Pascal
language. The OS used its own (logical) disk format, distinct from
DOS, ProDOS, CP/M, etc. on the Apple.

>-- 
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Paul Schlyter,  Swedish Amateur Astronomer's Society (SAAF)
>Grev Turegatan 40,  S-114 38 Stockholm,  SWEDEN
>e-mail:  pausch at saaf dot se   or    paul.schlyter at ausys dot se
>WWW:     http://hotel04.ausys.se/pausch    http://welcome.to/pausch

 --
Dennis Doms  SynABit@kc.invalid
[ObSpamFoil: substitute "rr.com" for "invalid" above to reply via mail.]
"In the end, only kindness matters." - "Hands", Jewel Kilcher