Or, maybe I misunderstood your previous email. It sounded like you thought I created Ultibo. I did not create it, but I have dabbled with it. It works pretty good if you can weed through their yet-incomplete documentation. I just did things like put text and graphics on screen so far. On Jan 12, 2017 11:40 AM, "Douglas Crawford" <touchetek@gmail.com> wrote:

Right, OK. I assumed incorrectly that you brought it up because you were a fan of the system and were using it for embedded stuff. My bad. On 1/12/2017 11:28 AM, jsalzman@gmail.com wrote:

Ultibo is not my project. I discovered it only because someone wrote a CP/M emulator in the environment. I assume Pascal was chosen because it's considered the "perfect" language due to its structured style and ease of use. Pascal is sometimes studied for programming theory for the same reason.

Regardless, it's all compiled to machine code anyway, so even a made-up programming language could have been implemented.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Douglas Crawford <touchetek@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello:

Pascal & Pi? You sent me through a rash of searches and web links to figure that out. I had no idea a Pascal derived from Borland lived on and thrived, let alone was some folks choice even on embedded development. The list of the supported environments on the Free Pascal wiki is fully shocking to me. The list of software produced with it is not so long on the wiki, but I have used one on the list PeaZip it works very well and of course had no idea of its underpinnings.

What are you implementing with it? Why have you stuck with Pascal? Its fascinating to me.

-Doug Crawford

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

Or, maybe I misunderstood your previous email. It sounded like you thought I created Ultibo.

I did not create it, but I have dabbled with it. It works pretty good if you can weed through their yet-incomplete documentation. I just did things like put text and graphics on screen so far.

​this is VERY interesting It's true that there's times when you just do not need the overhead of another OS. I think a lot of us that grew up with Pascal has some fond memories programming with this. Aside from the monotonous critiques of every programming language, this always had it's own niche and it's rather pleasing to see this make it beyond the 20th century. I like how they prepared this to compile, run, and go from the start including all of the onboard various interfaces and I/O, including networking. I don't mind it's still waiting for a Gtk, there's still plenty of work that's possible with this. thanks for the heads up !! Dan ​