8088 vs. 80c88

[Chuck Guzis]

On 22 Feb 2009 at 15:35, Roy J. Tellason wrote:

> Isn't JRT Pascal the one that had really horrible reviews in the magazines 
> back when?  Pournelle,  maybe,  though I couldn't say for sure as it's been a 
> while.

It *was* pretty buggy and very S-L-O-W, particularly when run from 8" 
SSSD floppy on a 2MHz 8080.  But it allowed for very large programs 
by using some sort of program segmentation (swapped to/from disk) and 
had a curious calling sequence, which turned up the V20 snake.

But it *was* cheap--something like $24.95.  I still have my original 
floppy from them.

I have no idea what became of JRT--ISTR, the company name was the 
initials of the author's name.

It's a good illustration of how sneaky some CPU bugs can be.  I 
suspect that CP/M will run just fine on an original NEC 8080, for 
example.

Cheers,
Chuck