environment which was Java '70s style :-) One of
the more seminal articles
 I remember reading in Byte was by Carl Helmers discussing how he'd just
 spent $5K on an Apple II to run UCSD Pascal. It was then I realized that
 micros would one day do the same amount of work that "real" computers did.
In the spring of 1978 I purchsed  UCSD P-system for NS*.  I paid $50 for
it then and still have it to day.  It's use was inspired by a friends H11
running it and my taking a data structures course that was in pascal.
It was indeed useful and compared to the univac1180 I could do  hours of
work in minutes do to not having to do the 029 batch submission dance.
I am presently rebuilding a stock NS* horizon to once again run ucsd
Psystem.
  compiler for (probably) RT-11. Anyone else recall
this? 
Micropower pascal, it was used to support embedded applications on the
Falcon card (T-11 dual width with ram, rom, io).
Allison