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Subject: Re: two questions...
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Date: 7 Nov 90 07:04:09 GMT
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In article <85@braille.uwo.ca> bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss) writes:
>I don't know how this discussion got started, but it might be a good 
>place to ask a few Pascal - ProDOS related questions and a good forum
>for displaying my ignorance at the same time!!!
>
>I thought or think, that such disks as Apple Presents AppleWorks are 
>Pascal disks.  Further, I think that AppleWorks was originally written in
>Pascal.  Considering that there are obviously .system files on the 
>AppleWorks disk it would seem, assuming that my contention that AppleWorks
>is Pascal, that much of the previous discussion is a bunch of hooey!!

  AppleWorks started out as the Apple /// program "/// Easy Pieces".
// Easy Piece was written in Pascal.  The II version of that program which
became known as AppleWorks, was and is written entirely in 6502 assembler.

 The only Apple II Pascal that can produce .SYSTEM files is/was KYAN pascal.
Unfortunately, this product is no longer produced or supported. If you
can find it it is an excellent investment. It was relatively quick (Even
on a //e) and produced good code. I believe there were libraries for
graphics, and for a "desktop" metaphor environment (pop-up menus, windows,
code could be used as a pop-up from AppleWorks, etc.)

>Bill Carss
>bill@braille.uwo.ca  (please note the lower case)


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