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Early BSD's Pascal system

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章宏九

I notice that in early 1977, BSD contains a Pascal interpreter (or maybe compiler, I am not sure). How was it later? Is there any remain archives?

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Marco van de Voort
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In our previous episode, 章宏九 said:

I notice that in early 1977, BSD contains a Pascal interpreter (or maybe compiler, I am not sure). How was it later? Is there any remain archives?

Yes, more commonly known "Berkeley Pascal". The manual,

http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/2BSD/puman.html

seems to mention a certian "William N. Joy" as partial author, the big BSD pioneer and Sun founder. It seems to be a bytecode Pascal. (iow compiler + interpreter like UCSD)

Afaik it can be found in old tars of early BSD versions online (at least I could a few years back), but it never migrated to the modern BSD after the Settlement, and afaik it is dead for twenty years.

Throwing "Berkeley Pascal" in google will probably turn up some stuff.

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章宏九
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Thank you for your detailed information.

2009/10/6 Marco van de Voort :

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In our previous episode, 章宏九 said: > I notice that in early 1977, BSD contains a Pascal interpreter (or > maybe compiler, I am not sure). How was it later? Is there any remain > archives? Yes, more commonly known "Berkeley Pascal". The manual, http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/2BSD/puman.html seems to mention a certian "William N. Joy" as partial author, the big BSD pioneer and Sun founder. It seems to be a bytecode Pascal. (iow compiler + interpreter like UCSD) Afaik it can be found in old tars of early BSD versions online (at least I could a few years back), but it never migrated to the modern BSD after the Settlement, and afaik it is dead for twenty years. Throwing "Berkeley Pascal" in google will probably turn up some stuff. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist  -   http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

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David W Noon
to 章宏九: I notice that in early 1977, BSD contains a Pascal interpreter (or maybe compiler, I am…

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:44:28 +0800, 章宏九 wrote about [fpc-pascal] Early BSD's Pascal system:

I notice that in early 1977, BSD contains a Pascal interpreter (or maybe compiler, I am not sure). How was it later? Is there any remain archives?

I suspect it is the UCSD (University of California at San Diego) Pascal compiler. It compiled source to p-code and its run-time interpreted the p-code tokens (a la Java, today).

Google is your friend.

Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ======================================================================= (David W Noon) =======================================================================

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Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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David W Noon wrote 10 lines
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:44:28 +0800, 章宏九 wrote about [fpc-pascal] Early BSD's Pascal system: > I notice that in early 1977, BSD contains a Pascal interpreter (or > maybe compiler, I am not sure). How was it later? Is there any remain > archives? I suspect it is the UCSD (University of California at San Diego) Pascal compiler. It compiled source to p-code and its run-time interpreted the p-code tokens (a la Java, today).

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Please see

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/attic/ucsd-pascal/

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk

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