iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (alan i. vymetalik) (08/05/89)
Another in randomly distributed set of quotes about the Rainbow.
For nostalgia and ol' time spirit lifting...
Development for Turbo Pascal 1.0 began on a DEC Rainbow.
"It was a great machine," Hejlsberg [Anders Hejlsberg, the
originator of Turbo Pascal and who has 'single-handedly
written the compiler and libraries for each release of
Turbo Pascal'] remembers. "I was doing a Z80 version and
an 8080 [sic] version, and the box had both processors.
You could get MS-DOS for it, too. So I had everything on
one machine -- it worked out perfectly. Of course, as soon
as we could get our hands on a PC, I got a PC."
Well, you can't win them all... I guess. I wonder if Hejlsberg's
rememberence of the Rainbow has something to do with the fact
that Turbo Pascal is the only compiler (at least the command-line
version) that still runs unassisted on the Rainbow. Even the
command-line Turbo C and Turbo Assembler programs won't run
without some patching.
Enjoy,
Alan
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In article <1254@cs.rit.edu> iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu, I wrote: > Another in randomly distributed set of quotes about the Rainbow. > > For nostalgia and ol' time spirit lifting... > [ quote repeated below... ] OOO! I'm gonna get flamed on this one! Well, there's a first time for everything, I suppose. This is the first time I've taken a quote (for a review or article) and did not attribute the source. So, with tail tucked between my legs, and my head hung low, I am reposting the quote with the source. Forgive me. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Development for Turbo Pascal 1.0 began on a DEC Rainbow. "It was a great machine," Hejlsberg [Anders Hejlsberg, the originator of Turbo Pascal and who has 'single-handedly written the compiler and libraries for each release of Turbo Pascal'] remembers. "I was doing a Z80 version and an 8080 [sic] version, and the box had both processors. You could get MS-DOS for it, too. So I had everything on one machine -- it worked out perfectly. Of course, as soon as we could get our hands on a PC, I got a PC." - Computer Language, July 1989 ("The Past, Present, and Future of Professional Programming" by J.D. Hildebrand, p.66.) Enjoy, Alan