Wonder if it was still a p-code compiler back then, as it was based on Microsoft Pascal, which was based on UCSD Pascal.
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Microsoft_Pascal Jeff. On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd < markmll.fpc-ot...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/05/18 17:30, Santiago A. wrote: > >> The 1990 version of Photoshop was written in Pascal. >> http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/ >> I've read that first Apple OS was in pascal. Also that first Autocad >> version was written also in Pascal, but it need to exchange floppy disks >> too many times for compiling. >> It looks like Pascal had a bright beginning. What happened to you, my >> beloved Pascal? Sniff =-) >> > > 53. Why did Autodesk decide to write AutoCAD in C rather than Pascal? > > Because when Greg Lutz went to see a demo of IBM Pascal at the > computer store, he discovered that it took 5 disc swaps or so to compile > each file. Computer Innovations C let you run with the compiler in the A > drive and your source in the B drive without playing disc jockey. > > https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_112.html > > Note who owns that website. > > -- > Mark Morgan Lloyd > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other >
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