Re: pascal system

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <4480938a$0$65463$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden  <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:

> Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Actually, if you get your Apple a CP/M card, you might get happier with 
>> plain ol' Turbo Pascal. Apple Pascal has been described as less than great.
> 
> They managed to combine an incredibly fast disk I/O system with an
> incredibly slow compiler (I believe it was itself written in Pascal).
> Watching the dots crawl was a rather painful experience.

I once saw a cartoon about a guy using Apple Pascal and compiling
a program.  Two kids watched him, and one asked "what's he's doing?".
The other kid answered "He's playing Pascal - that's the game where you
see how many dots you can get before it goes beep...."  :-)


> I seem to recall Turbo Pascal being significantly faster.

...well, THAT was an understatement.... :-)

> Of course, this effect is negligible on an emulator.
> 
> For best results, use Pascal 1.3 on a 3.5" disk.  It avoids some of the
> swapping that takes place otherwise, but it does limit your choice of
> emulators.

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