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

Dirk Weber wrote:
> schrieb cbfalconer@[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. btw which features
> could TurboPascal not handle? I did some programming with standard
> Pascal using the TurboPascal program and didn't have any problems
> doing so. But of course that was a kind of hobby programming, so
> maybe I din't come to any critical point.

The outstanding failure of TP is the lack of f^ and the put and get
standard procedures.  Read of a numeric value also bombs whenever
the value is not terminated by eoln (or maybe a blank).  Use of my
txtfiles unit can ameliorate this.  See:

   <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/>

IIRC there is also a problem with truncating text output with the
field specifier.  This list is not comprehensive, but it prevents
compiling standard Pascal with it.

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