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Re: Mac Pascal for teaching laboratory

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From: John Mazzocchi
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 01:30
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bruce-b@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Bruce P. Benson) writes:

>In <1991Mar14.014213.9313@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi) writes:

>>phil@waikato.ac.nz writes:

>>>The Department of Maths & Stats here wants to get a simple Pascal compiler for
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>>I know this doesn't answer your questions but I feel I should point out:

>>Mac Pascal, i.e. Macintosh Pascal, is by Apple.
>>If it's by Symantec, you're thinking of THINK Pascal.
>The unopened shrink wrapped package on my desk (1 of 10) says SYMANTEC
>Macintosh Pascal. (We use it for one of our stage1 computing courses).
>It arrived a couple of days ago. Symantec took over development at
>about version 2 (I think). The current version is version 3. It is for
>academic use only.
>For those of you who know version 2, you also know version 3 except
>for a few less bugs and one or two minor features.

My apologies, my knowledge was based on the version of Macintosh Pascal *I*
bought (Version 1.0) some years ago. I was not aware of Symantec taking over
development as I never upgraded to 2.0. (I bought Mac C instead.)
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From: rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi)
Newsgroups: nz.comp,comp.sys.mac.apps,aus.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Pascal for teaching laboratory
Keywords: Mac Pascal, AppleShare
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.013034.16232@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 15 Mar 91 01:30:34 GMT
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