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From: milne@ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal on Mac
Keywords: think pascal 3.0 macintosh
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Date: 29 Mar 91 04:52:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.211620.11901@bnlux1.bnl.gov> <1991Mar29.023857.17000@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In <1991Mar29.023857.17000@neon.Stanford.EDU> mrhoten@neon.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Paul Rhoten) writes:

>In article <1991Mar28.211620.11901@bnlux1.bnl.gov> 
>kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:
>>Is there a turbo pascal version for the Mac? 
>>If no turbo pascal on the mac, then what pascal do people use on the Mac?

>As far as I know Borland hasn't written up Turbo for the Mac. 

   Yes they have, actually, but some time ago.

   It's Turbo Pascal 1.1 for the Mac.  Tolerable, not great.  It's old 
   enough that it only gets on partially with Multifinder.  I get past that
   by compiling to disc, then running straight from Multifinder, rather than
   from within Turbo.  I don't know if Borland is still selling it.

   Although by itself it looks quite different from the PC version of Turbo --
   to be expected -- Borland does supply a compatibility unit which I believe
   is supposed to supply the calls that DOS-ported Turbo would use.  But I
   haven't tried it myself, so I can't say much about it.

   Turbo 1.1 does have one reasonably sensible addition: a unit which, when
   used, creates an 80x25 window and directs Turbo's 'standard in' and
   'standard out' to it.  Nice way to start development of a new program,
   and especially to do trivial little programs you'll throw away after a
   couple of uses.  For larger programs, you can disable this unit as soon as
   you've got your own windows in good order.


   Alastair Milne