From: robert@prino.org   
      
   On 2025-10-27 00:33, Alexander Grotewohl wrote:   
   > On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:56:42 +0100, eb wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >> robert@prino.org says...   
   >   
   >>> is posted to the newsgroup. Traffic to it has been pretty much   
   >>> non-existant for the past years, and those people who still "play"   
   >>> with the old DOS-age compilers probably know all ins and outs of them.   
      
   I occasionally still use TP 3.01a, and work full-time with Virtual Pascal,   
   FreePascal cannot handle one TP originated construction, that I use all the   
   time, and frankly, the last time I looked at the IDE and Debugger, they sucked,   
   big time! Next to that, the generated code is of TP/BP/VP quality, pretty   
   shitty, so I prefer hacking the VP generated assembler code, and the fact that   
   I   
   have to resort to that relic of TP 1/2/3, coding Pentium+ instructions using   
   db's doesn't really bother me in the least.   
      
   >> Perhaps we should recombine the Pascal-related   
   >> newsgroups back to a single comp.lang.pascal.   
   >>   
   >> The separation into subgroups occured some 30   
   >> years ago,   
      
   And should, in hindsight, never, never, never ever have been performed!   
      
   >> when there were dozens or even   
   >> hundreds of messages per day. However, I have   
   >> always felt that there is considerable overlap   
   >> in the topics of these subgroups.   
   >   
   > seems reasonable to me. i don't know who's responsible for that sort of thing   
   > though. "who's the boss?"   
   >   
   > would certainly be easier for newcomers..   
      
   You'd have to to to news.groups.proposals, but don't hold year breath!   
      
   comp.lang.asm.x86 was made a moderated group, and is now, thanks to a single   
   now-deceased moderator, dead, and attempts to revive it have so far failed   
   miserably, and it's apparently not possible to remove the   
   this-is-a-moderated-group flag...   
      
   Robert   
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