Re: [fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-18 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
John Youngquist wrote: Interesting response. I routinely implement large systems on the 8051 chip in assembly language which I can write faster than Pascal. Assembly is a minimum of 500% faster than C on the 8051. I hate C anyway. The machine is a pick & place machine designed to assemble SMT

Re: [fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-17 Thread Florian Klaempfl
John Youngquist schrieb: > Interesting response. > > I routinely implement large systems on the 8051 chip in assembly language > which I can write faster than Pascal. Assembly is a minimum of 500% > faster than > C on the 8051. I hate C anyway. > FPC runs also on embedded arm systems so this mig

Re: [fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-17 Thread John Youngquist
Interesting response. I routinely implement large systems on the 8051 chip in assembly language which I can write faster than Pascal. Assembly is a minimum of 500% faster than C on the 8051. I hate C anyway. The machine is a pick & place machine designed to assemble SMT circuit boards. It was

Re: [fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-17 Thread Jeff Wormsley
John Youngquist wrote: I would like to port the program as is, but eventually get a PCI 48 I/O line card to escape the ISA bus and also talk USB as well. Getting it to run on later versions of Windows might be useful. This program controls a machine on a single purpose computer. Windows is used