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Nice, presumably you take the x86 emulator from yesterday, and boot it with a copy of the TurboPascal disk?

Took me a good 30 minutes to remember how to write hello world in PASCAL :-) And I admit I forgot about the period on the End statement.



I found more details here, including a link to the source code:

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/turbo_pascal_compil...

Well done!


That is awesome, somewhere I've got a pretty printer I developed for TurboPASCAL. I tried to sell all the rights to Borland in exchange for a enough cash to buy a decent oscilloscope (I have a history of 'consulting for toys' :-)and they weren't going for it. In hindsight (much later) I realized I should have set the price really high, let them try a demo with a non-refundable deposit of 10% of the price, and then feigning sadness when they decided not to proceed :-)


Some interesting background of the author:

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/oscar/




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