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From: rthille@ics.uci.edu (Robert Thille)
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Subject: Re: P-Systems
Summary: Good Idea for lower IIs. ie Not IIgs.
Keywords: P-system, IIe, II+, IIc
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Date: 28 May 89 02:30:04 GMT
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I think that P-systems would be a good idea for the non-IIgs IIs, since
it is the easiest way to develop on a II, and such a similar system exists.
If Apple were supporting Apple pascal, the best thing to do would be to port
the p-code interpreter to prodos, port the pascal compiler, write a C and 
fortran? compiler, all running under ProDos.  Then someone could write a p-code
to 6502 compiler/assembler.  It would basically seperate the front and the back
end of the compilers, making it easier to modify each one.  The p-code
compiler could generate code for 6502, 65c02, 65802, 65816, allowing programs
to take better advantage of the system they are running on.

Now if we could get apple to just support non-IIgs IIs!!!  :-)

Robert Thille

P.S. Look in APDAlog, and see that only 2(?) products specifically for non-IIgs
IIs, from apple, are current, and supported.