Re: Odd thought (was: Looking for Apple Fortran diskettes for Apple

[jjp@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Paul R. Santa-Maria (paulrsm@buckeye-express.com) wrote:
: Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
: >         Might be fun if someone took a look at Apple FORTRAN and Apple Pascal and
: > ported them to Prodos. Shouldn't be too hard.

: I was seriously thinking about trying to do it, but the Apple Pascal
: compiler is written in Apple Pascal, which is to say that it is
: interpreted p-code and very slow.

: I am now playing with Kyan Pascal and the KIX environment.

I once disassembled the P-code interpreter for Apple Pascal (1.1, I think) 
and just knowing how it uses memory, a ProDOS port wouldn't be that easy,
since it uses the same part of memory (D000-FFFF in the "language card"
space) as ProDOS' MLI does.  Sure, you could use the other 64k, or more on
some machines, but I don't think it's worth the effort, especially as
there are other Pascal implementations out there as mentioned by Paul. 


Jerry Penner	jjp@ecn.ab.ca