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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac Pascal for teaching laboratory
Keywords: Mac Pascal, AppleShare
Message-ID: <5981@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 03:54:55 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.143800.3108@waikato.ac.nz> <1991Mar14.014213.9313@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <1991Mar14.014213.9313@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi) writes:
>phil@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>
>>The Department of Maths & Stats here wants to get a simple Pascal compiler for
>>use in a lab of 24 Mac Pluses/SEs with an AppleShare file server.  Mac Pascal
>>from Symantec seems to be the most likely contender.  I am interested to hear
>>from any users about its suitability for our intended use, or of anything else
>>that might be out there that is cheaper and/or better for similar cost.
>
>I know this doesn't answer your questions but I feel I should point out:
>
>Mac Pascal, i.e. Macintosh Pascal, is by Apple.
>If it's by Symantec, you're thinking of THINK Pascal.

	Macintosh Pascal was written in 1983-4 by THINK Technologies,
and licensed to Apple for release with the Macintosh under the Apple
label. In 1989, Apple returned distribution rights to Symantec, and
graciously allowed us to continue using the Macintosh Pascal name
(I'm not completely up on the legalities...)

	In August 1989, Macintosh Pascal 3.0 was released.

So much for the historical background.

	Mac Pascal is probably best suited for your purposes. Since it
is interpreted, it won't be suitable for serious numbercrunching, but
it offers some features that make it more pleasant to use in an educational
environment; in particular, support for shared use on a network is much
better than in previous versions.

For more information, contact Edutech, which is Symantec's exclusive
educational distributor. Their phone number escapes me at the moment,
but they're in area code 408. Outside the U.S., contact your local
Symantec International Partner; in your region, that may be TechFlow
Pty. Limited, but again, I'm not completely certain.

R.



 Rich Siegel	Symantec Languages Group  Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu

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