Developer Tries Resurrecting 47-Year-Old 'Apple Pascal' (and its p-System) in Rust
11-05-2025 00:14 via developers.slashdot.org

Developer Tries Resurrecting 47-Year-Old 'Apple Pascal' (and its p-System) in Rust

Long-time Slashdot reader mbessey (a Mac/iOS developer) writes:As we're coming up on the 50th anniversary of the first release of UCSD Pascal, I thought it would be interesting to poke around in it a bit, and work on some tools to bring this "portable operating system" back to life on modern hardware, in a modern language (Rust).Wikipedia describes UCSD Pascal as "a version that ran on a custom operating system that could be ported to different platforms. A key platform was the Apple II, where i
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