29 Jan
2022
29 Jan
'22
9:02 p.m.
Clem Cole writes:
And the problem was 'standard' - lots of people messed with it and every
Pascal was a little different. In 1981 at one of the HP/Tektronix
[Hatfield/McCoy parties - Stienhart probably remembers], Mike Zuhl, TW Cook
and I counted 14 different "Tek Pascal's" and over 25 "HP
Basic's" -- each
was a little different.
Oh yeah. Part of this was because Pascal wasn't really up to the job.
So many product groups added their own p-codes for things that they
needed.