[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Scott Dorsey]

Chris  <xxx.syseng.yyy at gfsys.co.uk> 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.
>
>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.
>
>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...

The Java sandbox is in many ways a poor imitation of the P-machine.
--scott
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