[fpc-pascal] I found FPC v0.2 source code :-)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Lars wrote:

> To keep it on topic, there is programmable hardware available where you
> can change the hardware using a hardware programming language. Niklaus
> Wirth is interested in such technology. Instead of soldering in capacitors
> and resistors, you program in something that emulates a resistor or
> capacitor. This makes prototyping circuits much easier because instead of
> soldering, you program in the devices you would have otherwise soldered.
> The devices are called Field-programmable gate array's I think, and from
> what I remember Niklaus Wirth was programming a remote control helicopter
> with it, or maybe oberon, it's been so long that I cannot remember the
> details. Just trying to keep it a bit on topic.

I've commented to this in fpc-other.

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