[fpc-pascal] Early BSD's Pascal system

[章宏九]

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2009/10/6 Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>:
> In our previous episode, 章宏九 said:
>> I notice that in early 1977, BSD contains a Pascal interpreter (or
>> maybe compiler, I am not sure). How was it later? Is there any remain
>> archives?
>
> Yes, more commonly known "Berkeley Pascal". The manual,
>
> http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/2BSD/puman.html
>
> seems to mention a certian "William N. Joy" as partial author, the big BSD
> pioneer and Sun founder. It seems to be a bytecode Pascal. (iow compiler +
> interpreter like UCSD)
>
> Afaik it can be found in old tars of early BSD versions online (at least I
> could a few years back), but it never migrated to the modern BSD after the
> Settlement, and afaik it is dead for twenty years.
>
> Throwing "Berkeley Pascal" in google will probably turn up some stuff.
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