The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers

Just found out that the kind people at BitSavers added some scanned USCD Pascal documentation in PDF format:

• The 1981 Softech Microsystems UCSD p-System and UCSD Pascal version IV_internal Architecture Guide
• The 1983 Softech Microsystems UCSD p-System version IV for the Apple IItm computer documentation
• The 1984 Softech Microsystems Software Reference Library MacAdvantage UCSD Pascal documentation
• and more

It reminds me of my early Pascal days on Apple ][. UCSD Pascal was so slow that I was glad to discover Turbo Pascal 1.0, which lacked some of the UCSD Pascal features (for instance cross platform – including Mac, almost 30 years ago! – and Turtle graphics), but was blazingly fast.

Trade offs indeed (:

–jeroen