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Article #168DEC Rainbow Quote for the Month
From: alan i. vymetalik
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1989 06:18
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1989 06:18
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Another in randomly distributed set of quotes about the Rainbow.
For nostalgia and ol' time spirit lifting...
Development for Turbo Pascal 1.0 began on a DEC Rainbow.
"It was a great machine," Hejlsberg [Anders Hejlsberg, the
originator of Turbo Pascal and who has 'single-handedly
written the compiler and libraries for each release of
Turbo Pascal'] remembers. "I was doing a Z80 version and
an 8080 [sic] version, and the box had both processors.
You could get MS-DOS for it, too. So I had everything on
one machine -- it worked out perfectly. Of course, as soon
as we could get our hands on a PC, I got a PC."
Well, you can't win them all... I guess. I wonder if Hejlsberg's
rememberence of the Rainbow has something to do with the fact
that Turbo Pascal is the only compiler (at least the command-line
version) that still runs unassisted on the Rainbow. Even the
command-line Turbo C and Turbo Assembler programs won't run
without some patching.
Enjoy,
Alan
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