Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines

rbanffy 21 points 4 comments August 12, 2026
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pjmlp

I guess today is Pascal's day. This website is full of goodies for anyone that cares about history of Niklaus Wirth created languages.

jshaqaw

Pascal will always have my heart. My first bridge outside Basic (I was stuck with a home pc so didn’t go down the assembly rabbit hole like others of my generation). Turbo Pascal’s IDE. Add it possible for a kid to learn and create in a way I never would have done if stuck with a collection of semi independent tools. for those who say just use the command line - this was 1989. DOS was not exactly today’s modern shell environment!

anthk

Simlar language, compatible with MSDOS, CP/M and Unix: https://t3x.org/t3x/0/index.html

iberator

Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space. Vim looks pathetic in comparison to it...

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