Re: pascal system

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

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 seem to
recall Turbo Pascal being significantly faster.  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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