Re: What exactly WAS Apple Pascal?

[Declan MacLeod <declan_macleoid@now-munged-for-your-protection.hotmail.com>]

In article <cd7lc2$q52$1@ottoman.cs.fiu.edu>,
 Zorin the Lynx <yakko@zorin.org> wrote:

> I was an Apple II user for many years in the 80's and early 90's, but I 
> never actually found out exactly what Apple Pascal was, and references 
> online seem to be nonexistent.
> 
> It seemed to be a disk format, operating system, and possibly a 
> programming environment all built into one.. Hell, many utilities could 
> copy files to and from "Apple Pascal" format disks, but what was the 
> environment like?
> 
> Was it a full-featured Pascal compiler? An OS? A file format? Or all of 
> the above? Did anyone here develop in it? What was it like?
> 
> I had exactly ONE program that used Apple Pascal, and that was SmartCom 
> I, which drove my MicroModem IIe. (Note: This was the most useless comm 
> program ever. It had no industry-standard file transfer protocols and 
> had a goofy design. But hey, it got me on BBS's!)
> 
> A pointer to a FAQ or other document explaining Apple Pascal would be 
> great too...
> 
> - A curious Z

The other replies have pretty much summed up what it was.  The only 
thing left to be mentioned was disk drives.  The ideal number for using 
Apple Pascal was "one more than you had."  ;-)

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