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

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

- Mike