smith@glinda.ctron.com (Larry Smith) (03/21/91)
Does anyone recall the old UCSD p-System? It was last owned and maintained by Pecan Systems in Brooklyn, NY. They had produced a 32 bit version and had compilers for Pascal, C, Modula/2, FORTRAN and possibly Ada (announced but never shipped, I think). Does anyone know if the p-System is still around? Who owns it? How much would a source code license be? Anybody? Larry Smith smith@ctron.com
milne@ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne) (03/23/91)
In <1349@glinda.ctron.com> smith@glinda.ctron.com (Larry Smith) writes: >Does anyone recall the old UCSD p-System? It was last owned and maintained >by Pecan Systems in Brooklyn, NY. They had produced a 32 bit version and >had compilers for Pascal, C, Modula/2, FORTRAN and possibly Ada (announced >but never shipped, I think). Does anyone know if the p-System is still >around? Who owns it? How much would a source code license be? Anybody? I do a great more than recall it! Pecan also has a division in Bristol, England, and I think it's the Bristol division that's doing most of the sales -- the p-System was usually more popular in Europe (and Canada? maybe?) than in the US. I never heard of Pecan collapsing, and from time to time one sees references to the p-System on this board. I bought a MacOS-hosted version from them a couple of years ago. What sources would you want? SYSTEM.PASCAL? The further units in SYSTEM.LIBRARY? The filer or the compiler? Not the interpreter, I hope, unless you're feeling very adventurous. A great system. Extremely modular and amazingly portable. Interface is a bit aged by today's standards, but dealing with that would require little more than updating the CommandIO unit in SYSTEM.PASCAL . And having long been used to the size of p-System code files, I still can't used to how big DOS executables are. Alastair Milne