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Pascal was popular in San Diego, and the early days of Apple iirc
by ihatepython 3y ago
Pascal was popular in San Diego, and the early days of Apple iirc
- jhbadger 3y agoYes, the UCSD p-system virtual machine -- basically the same idea as the JVM and .NET but decades earlier -- compile to a virtual machine and deploy to anywhere you had the VM deployed. It was the basis of the Apple Pascal system which was basically an operating system onto itself (on the Apple II, it was used most famously for the early dungeon crawler Wizardry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal
- acegopher 3y agoAnd was what the Apple Lisa OS was programmed in. https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/chm-makes-apple-lisa-source-code-available-to-the-public-as-a-part-of-its-art-of-code-series/ https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/chm-makes-apple-l...