Re: IIGs - Apple IIe programs

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

David Empson wrote:

> 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 think version 3.01A is the last one available for CP/M.

> 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.

It seems that both appeared on the market simultaneously on Nov. 20,
1983 (coincidentally the same day that "The Day After" aired on ABC).

> 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.

The CP/M version needs relatively little memory. Less than 40K I
believe, so it should work even on a 48K Apple (although your own Pascal
programs would have to be fairly short). I'm not sure if it was ever
published in Apple II Disk format. But once moved to a Disk II floppy,
it works very well.

> My recollection is that it
> required a Z80 processor so it wouldn't work on an 8080.

That's true.

> 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 Pascal 7 could compile Windows 3.x programs, but was always a
DOS program itself. There were two releases of less-than-amazing "Turbo
Pascal for Windows".

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Linards Ticmanis