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Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's

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From: Rick Kelly
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:00
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Rob Duff (rduff@wimsey.com) wrote:

: 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.

At one time, the UCSD p-system ran on:

PDP-11
APPLE-II
TI994A
IBMPC

And maybe Trash 80.

There was source compatability between the hosted platforms.

At one time there was Pascal, BASIC, and FORTRAN available for 
the p-system.  I've used it on Apple II and PDP-11 boxes.
--
Rick Kelly  rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com  rmk@rmkhome.com 
            http://tencats.rmkhome.com
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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Subject: Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's
Date: 1996/01/29
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