Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

M. Pender replied:

>Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>20030727041554.24610.00000499@mb-m28.aol.com">news:20030727041554.24610.00000499@mb-m28.aol.com...
>> Mike Pender wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the reasons I thought Apple Pascal may have been coded in ForTran
>is
>>> because they named the two disks "FORT1" and "FORT2."
>>
>> No, those disks are the FORTRAN compiler.  The Pascal compiler and
>> system are on "APPLE0", "APPLE1", and "APPLE2".
>
>These are the disks I pulled to get the flash screen at Asimov:
>disk1:  images/utility/programming/applepascal1.dsk.gz
>disk 2: images/utility/programming/applepascal2.dsk.gz
>
>If that's actually the Fortran compiler then it must be improperly labeled
>on the Asimov site.

I haven't checked these images thoroughly against the original
disks, but the first one contains the FORTRAN library, and what
appears to be the Pascal compiler.  The second appears to be
the APPLE1 Pascal system and library.

These are not the distribution disks for Apple Pascal, and
the volume names are, as you might guess, for the FORTRAN
distribution disks.

-michael

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