[cctalk] Re: DOS p-System Pascal: (Was: Saga of CP/M)

[Will Cooke via cctalk]

> On 05/09/2024 7:24 AM CDT Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
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>
> Mike
> I was thinking operating systems and the early launch version IBM PC, but
> yes once the hardware caught up Turbo Pascal was a popular program now that
> I think about it. So I guess the PC versions just needed more horsepower
> and some useful libraries. But Pascal never matched C
> Bill
>

My perception is that UCSD P system was quite popular in the late 70s on Apple 
and other systems.  Then when the university turned it over to commercial 
marketing (SofTech?), the silly games played turned a lot of people off.  Like 
trying to revoke previously granted licenses and charging "too much."

I suspect that left a bad taste in a lot of mouths that might otherwise have 
been interested.  But I was a distant observer at the time;  I couldn't afford 
more than my ZX-81 and VIC-20.

Will


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