Re: IIGs - Apple IIe programs

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Mike Spurgeon <mike@spurgeon.net> wrote:

> Tristan Mumford wrote:
> > Linards Ticmanis wrote:
> 
> >> And, last not least, there's Turbo Pascal, if you have a Z80 card.
> >>
> > Turbo Pascal? As in a coincidentally named Pascal like the language released
> > by Borland? Or is it the root product of the lineage?
> 
> Turbo Pascal, if memory serves, came out for the Apple II first...

More correctly, it came out for CP/M first. I used Turbo Pascal at work
(on a CP/M computer based on the Little Big Board, around 1985 or 1986)
before I saw it on MS-DOS. That was probably version 1.

I don't remember whether it was available simultaneously for CP/M and
MS-DOS, or whether the CP/M version was available before the MS-DOS
version.

As a CP/M application, it would have been available for any platform
which could run CP/M (including the Apple II) as long as there was a way
of getting it onto the right disk format, and there weren't any
constraints regarding available memory. My recollection is that it
required a Z80 processor so it wouldn't work on an 8080.

Turbo Pascal was eventually rebadged Borland Pascal (with Turbo Pascal
remaining as a minimal featured entry level version, if was like Borland
C). As far as I recall, Borland Pascal was only available for MS-DOS. I
may still have a working install of Borland Pascal 7 on my OS/2 computer
at work but I haven't used it for ages.

Borland Delphi is effectively the latest version of Turbo Pascal.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz