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Re: What exactly WAS Apple Pascal?



Paul Schlyter wrote:
In article <40f7d453$1_5@corp.newsgroups.com>,  <exegete@nunya.biz> wrote:

It also supported 3.5" disk drives. That 800K of storage was a big
improvement over 1-4 140K drives.


I can easily imagine....

A friend of mine patched Apple Pascal 1.1 to run on 80-track double
sided 5.25" floppies, which yielded not 800K but 640K -- but that too
was a huge improvement over the 140K standard Apple II diskettes.
I did the same to Apple DOS 3.3 and Apple CP/M (both Softcard CP/M
and Appli-Card CP/M).  And here Apple Pascal and Apple CP/M showed one
big advantage over Apple DOS: one disk volume could be 640K large.
In Apple DOS one disk volume could not be larger than 400K....

I'd like to see something like that. XD Especially since my emulator supports a block device with 1.4 MB capacity... ^^;;;;;

Moll.