Re: Old vs. New: Pascal and other stuff.

Dirk Weber typed:
> Am Donnerstag, dem 15.02.07, schrieb cbfalconer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 45D38F9E.2B162925@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> There are patches available to make those systems run.  It has to
>> do with the CRT unit, I believe, and the timer initialization
>> code.  It doesn't like clock rates over about 250 Mhz.
>
> Yep, I read so. But since I don't use neither DOS nor MS WINDOWS any
> more I would not really have any benefits from these patches.
>
>> You can
>> also get FreePascal, which is a Turbo clone, plus, or GPC, which
>> can handle real ISO standard Pascal.  Turbo can't.  Not sure about
>> FP.
>
> It seems that FreePascal can handle ISO Pascal.

jonas already answered that. and he knows much better than most of us :)

> btw which features could TurboPascal not handle?

a lot .. from very early version file handling was diffrent in iso and
tp?
+ inlines used in early TP + x86 assembler optinons in later

> I did some programming with standard Pascal

....

> using the TurboPascal program and didn't have any problems
> doing so.

common subset used only?

> But of course that was a kind of hobby programming, so maybe
> I din't come to any critical point.

maybe :)

Both have solutions 4 all kinda probs - but diffrent way to do so.
so it is possible to convert but not a simply compile on different
maschine ;)

greetz
jo

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