Re: [fpc-other] How was compiled the very first version of FPC?

2017-01-10 Thread Travis Siegel
And ultimately I think that TP was written in Z80 assembler, later converted to 8086. Actually, I don't know about versions pre 4.0), but source code versions of tp 6 have escaped into the wild, and if you can locate one of those, you'll see turbo pascal is written in turbo pascal as well.

Re: [fpc-other] How was compiled the very first version of FPC?

2017-01-10 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/10/2017 1:31 PM, gabor wrote: http://turbopascal.org/ I think it's not borland's turbo pascal No, it's not, it's the site of a Russian guy who says he reverse engineered Turbo Pascal 7 and sells the source code for that (called TPC16, there's also a 32bit version compiled with Delphi).

Re: [fpc-other] How was compiled the very first version of FPC?

2017-01-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 09/01/17 20:30, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, Giuliano Colla wrote: While installing FPC on a new platform, and looking for the appropriate seed compiler, a question came to my mind. As compiling FPC from sources requires a previous FPC version, how was