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dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Dr. Richard Botting) wrote:

>Simon (simon@wjh.harvard.edu) wrote:
>: On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>: > It's more like the UCSD P-System of the nineties, and the virtualization
>: > is quite strikingly similar.
>: > --scott

>: anychance you could explain what a ucsd p-system is?  perhaps the urinary 
>: tract of some small mammal?

>Ho ho....

>P=Pascal (the language....)
>UC=University of California
>SD=San Diego

>It was a compiler/interpreter for Pascal that ran on a cheap and popular
>micro-computer in days before PC,...
>PC=IBM Personal Computers.

It was mildly popular for the PC in its early days.  When PCs came
stock with 16K and later, 64K the p-system was the only compiler
available for it. Eventually Turbo Pascal eclipsed it.

>A brief note: As far as I can tell, Every language that has become
>a widely used language has gone through a stage when it was given away
>free(in alphabetical order):
<snip>
>	Pascal: from UCSD and (*memory failure*) Switzerland

The P3 pascal compiler was written for Niklaus Wirth by (* memory
failure ;-) in the Institut fur Informatik in Zurich.

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