jwc@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Jack Carlyle) (10/06/89)
======= I'm asking this question on behalf of a teacher in a local school (grades 7 through 12); his teaching lab is equipped with lots of IIe machines, and he has a server and networking via appletalk/appleshare. He teaches Pascal, and would like to have a ProDos-based Pascal that takes some advantage of his network -- i.e., is at least appleshare aware to the extent that it can be accessed from his server across the network. It need not have any fancy multilaunch/multiuser features -- just should not crash when accessed on the network. This is what happens with, e.g., Apple instant pascal (and a compiler would be preferred over the interpreter anyway). The other (old) Apple pascal is p-system based rather than Prodos, so would not meet the OS preference. Kyan pascal is no longer available, right? At present, the teacher is reluctantly continuing to use his old CPM boards and TurboPascal standalone from floppy disks on each machine, thus not getting benefit from his network/server capability and not integrating well with ProDos. There are, of course, interesting new language packages available for the IIGS, but his hardware is IIe. I suspect that other grade/high schools must be in the same boat -- they are not in a position to upgrade to expensive IIGS machines. In fact, his IIe machines and networking are mostly late-model equipment purchased at good discounts directly from Apple. However, software support for the IIe is another matter entirely these days! Any information on a Pascal that would meet his needs, or on patches to the code of an existing Pascal so that it would not crash in the network environment, would be very much appreciated. --- Jack Carlyle ======================== Professor Jack W. Carlyle Computer Science Department School of Engineering and Applied Science UCLA Los Angeles CA 90024 jwc@cs.ucla.edu ========================