Re: Turbo Pascal 1.0 trivia

"W. Craig Trader" <ct7@mitre.org>
28 Nov 1997 00:59:39 -0500

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From: "W. Craig Trader" <ct7@mitre.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.compilers,comp.lang.misc,comp.os.cpm
Date: 28 Nov 1997 00:59:39 -0500
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
References: 97-11-139
Keywords: Pascal, history

Arne Frick wrote:
>
> I am interested in the answer to the following question and couldn't
> find anything on the net.
>
> Remember the original Turbo Pascal for CP/M compiler from Borland? A
> colleague claims it was based on p-code, but my memory tells me
> otherwise. As far as I remember, it was the first native-code
> compiler for Pascal at the time.
>
> Anyone who remembers facts or who can give me a pointer?


The first native-code Pascal compiler I knew of was the Pascal-S
compiler for Pr1me computers, from Sheffield University in England.
I first saw it in 1981, and it was the first compiler that I had
the source for (written in Pascal-S of course). The compiler
was written in a single pass that generated binary object code.


- Craig -


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