From: et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   Ralf Folkerts (ralffmail-news1@yahoo.de) writes:   
   > Hi,   
   >   
   > I'm not really sure but IIRC there once was UCSD-Pascal for the TRS-80;   
   > I saw it somewhere and IMHO it was a two- or three-Disk-System and used   
   > it's own p-Code OS.   
   >   
   > Now, I searched around but didn't find it - not even on Ira's Site :-(   
   >   
   > Does anyone know if there really was UCSD-Pascal for the TRS-80 and if,   
   > is there a chance to get a Copy?   
   >   
   A quick search shows pages saying there was a TRS-80 version.   
      
   That's not a complete surprise, since one key part of UCSD Pascal   
   was the p-system.  The pascal was compiled to p-code, and the   
   p-code was run on a p-code interpreter.  It helped to make it   
   transportable, since it was relatively easy to rewrite the p-code   
   interpreter for each bit of hardware, leaving the pascal to p-code   
   compiler constant (since it ran on top of the p-code interpreter).   
      
   Once you have that in place, then it works in your favor to get   
   it ported to as many types of computers as possible, to build   
   up the user base.   
      
     Michael   
      
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