8088 vs. 80c88

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 22 February 2009 05:57:46 pm Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 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 do recall seeing it in an ad not too long ago and thinking so too.  Cheap is 
good.  Mostly.  :-)

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

Borland came along?  Not that I was ever a fan of Pascal,  though.  I remember 
going to some meeting of a bunch of computer nuts way back in 1978 sometime,  
in Philly,  and a guy there was all fired up about it,  I guess because there 
wasn't much in the way of higher-level languages available around that time.


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