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From: wei@princeton.UUCP (P Wei)
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Subject: What happened to MYSTIC PASCAL ?
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 21:26:46 EST
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   The MYSTIC Pascal has been appeared on several magazine for several months
    However, the price looks like a oscillatory function of time !
Now it is even as low as 16 bucks.
Can anyone either post a summary of his impression of this Pascal  or
send me mail ( I will post the results later ) ?
In particualr, I am wondering about the following things :
(1) Is it now a full, working implementation ?
(2) Is it standard Pascal ? Or I can chop a large program into small separate
    subprogram and compile them separately .
(3) The claimed concurrency certainly is not standard Pascal.
    Is it working flawlessly ? Do we get a special Modular-2 ?
(4) How is the assembly language interface ? Is it easier than TURBO ?
(5) Does it support 8087 math chip ?
Thank in advance.
HP Wei (wei@princeton)