He meant to say Prolog, not Pascal. Regardless if you want to alleviate all the fuss and mess of running 16 bit wares on modern h/w, just look for a 32 bit cast off. Many appropriate mobos can be had on epay for a song.
Now no one I know wants to spend the next 40 years writing 16 bit apps. But if it can't be (easily) done otherwise, it can be done on raw metal cheaply. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Sunday, February 25th, 2024 at 6:41 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I wrote a large application in Turbo Pascal in 1996 or so, > and it had been cast adrift since then. The computer it ran > on was getting old and I was worried it would die, and then > I discovered FPC (Free Pascal Compiler). It was designed to > port over Turbo Pascal and DEC Pascal programs, and took the > separate compilation directives like uses and $I. I was > able to get that program running on a Linux system in a few > days. > > Jon
