[fpc-other] Original Version of Photoshop Was Written in Pascal; Source Released

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 25/05/18 17:00, Ralf Quint wrote:

> Pascal on (Apple II) CP/M was at first probably Digitial Research's 
> Pascal MT+, which was then also released as a PC/MS-DOS version for x86 
> as Pascal MT+ 86.

I used that a lot on CCP/M-86, and it was probably the best of DR's 
language offerings.

> And UCSD Pascal did not "arrive late for the PC", it was among the 
> offerings from IBM right from the start, but just like CP/M-86, it was 
> just priced WAAAAYYY above PC-DOS, so very few people were actually 
> using it,

It was /offered/, but that's not to say that mere mortals could get 
their hands on it.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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