From: ralffmail-news1@yahoo.de   
      
   winston19842005 wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > On 10/4/07 11:06 PM, in article fe49od$qp6$1@theodyn.ncf.ca, "Michael Black"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > You can look or try asking on:   
   >   
   > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/UCSDPascal/   
      
   Hi,   
      
   thanks for that hint! Will give the group a try. That UCSD-thing came   
   back to my mind when I read quite a while ago that USCD open sourced   
   part of it's Pascal.   
      
   Cheers,   
   _ralf_   
      
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