From: bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net
On 10/27/08 8:28 AM, in article 6mlqf9Fhi4bgU1@mid.individual.net, "Bill
Gunshannon" wrote:
> In article
> ,
> AaronB writes:
>> On Oct 18, 5:57 am, billg...@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>> The version for the TRS-80 (all models) was Version IV.
>> I'm very sure the FMG UCSD Pascal that I used was I.5, not version IV.
>> This was for use with the TRS-80 (Model I) and Model II.
>> Did IV exist in 1979?
>
> No, early 80's. But I have UCSD-Pascal for the Model II and Model 16
> and it includeds information for moving programs and data between these
> and the Model I/III and it is definitely Version IV. Interesting now
> that I think of it, I don't remember there ever being a version for
> the Model 4. I would imagine PCD gave up the business about the time
> it came out.
My recollection, as it is from the pov of a Texas Instruments owner, was
back around 1981, TI was prototyping a sidecar (hardware) P-code device,
that was II.0.
IV.0 came out, and they redesigned it as a card for the Peripheral Expansion
System, based on the new version. This would have been 1982, but the cards
were very short in supply. I didn't find one until 1987.
IV.0 was under SoftTech Microsystems. A company called Pecan software took
over UCSD, and was contracted to create a version for the Myarc Geneve
(TI-99 upgrade). Either that, or Myarc had bought rights to create such a
version. It did not come to be, constantly delayed like many Myarc products.
Eventually, a group of TIers bought out Myarc's stake in their own OS, and
this probably extended to the P-system. I don't know if it was ever
completed - very possibly. But with all the delays, we are talking late 80's
now - probably 1988 or 1989...
I have the TI IV.0 manual discussion the differences between it and earlier
versions...
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