[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Tue May 8 09:21:50 EDT 2018


On 05/08/2018 09:13 AM, Chris wrote:
> On 05/08/18 00:19, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> That's the P-System, not the Compiler. The compiler only
>> generates P-Code for the P-System. And, unless you plan
>> to work with Version II.0 or earlier I believe licenses
>> are still rather expensive.
>>
>> bill
> 
> Yes, it was a like complete mini OS that ran on the bare hardware.
> We used it for apps development on Apple II / Corvus and Sage 68k
> systems.

And, I used it on PDP-11, Z80 and M68K as well as my Apple][.  But
not what Simon is looking for, I think.

> 
> Edit, Compile, Link, Filer Run, etc across the top of the terminal.
> Quite an elegant system for it's day. With present fast cpus, an
> intermediate P interpreted layer should not be a problem at
> all...

Yeah, reinvented as the JVM.  But, also, still a commercial
product and certainly not free.

bill




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