Re: Turbo Pascal 1.0 trivia

In article 97-11-139, Arne Frick <africk@ilk.de> writes:
|> I am interested in the answer to the following question and couldn't
|> find anything on the net.
|>
|> Remember the original Turbo Pascal for CP/M compiler from Borland? A
|> colleague claims it was based on p-code, but my memory tells me
|> otherwise. As far as I remember, it was the first native-code
|> compiler for Pascal at the time.
|>
|> Anyone who remembers facts or who can give me a pointer?
|>
|> -- Arne
|> [As I recall, it was native code. UCSD Pascal was P-code. -John]
|>
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  Starting from a Pascal compiler written as part of a study project
  by 2 french students of N. Wirth in Stanford, I developed a Pascal
  compiler for an IRIS80 machine (from CII company, now Bull);
  the machine code was the same as the code of an Honeywell
  machine, the name of which I've forgotten (something like Sigma7 or 9).


  The compiler was a one pass, native code generating compiler and,
  as far as I remember, it more or less inspired Turbo Pascal
  (a product from a company founded by french people).


  I don't remember the starting date of the development, but
  I' sure the compiler has been extensively used between October 1974
  and 1981 in about 40 centers, through France, Europe and USA.


  Moreover, the compiler was distributed in source form (Pascal itself),
  and it has been often used to produce Pascal compilers for other
  architectures.




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