Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : commodorejohn (at) *nospam* gmail.com (John Ames)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 26. Sep 2024, 16:21:25
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On 26 Sep 2024 01:32:26 GMT
rbowman <
bowman@montana.com> wrote:
I bought the CP/M version of Turbo Pascal mostly on a whim. "50 bucks
-- this I gotta see." iirc it had enough non-standard extensions to
be useful and it was on blazing hell of a lot faster than the BDS C
compiler I was using.
Yeah, TP was very well-regarded; not without its quirks (ah, RTE 200,)
but one of the first really *decent* programming environments for DOS/
CP/M. Enabled a lotta small independent developers to ply their trade,
back in the day...