[SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: When was first campaign for computer users' freedom

Al Kossow kossow at computerhistory.org
Mon Aug 13 07:46:17 PDT 2012


> On 8/13/12 5:12 AM, "William McMillan" <wmcmillan at emich.edu> wrote:
> 
> UCSD Pascal, BTW, likely embodies the first use of such features as drop-down
> menus and had a large influence on Apple, which distributed UCSD Pascal as
> Apple Pascal.  Apple employed many of Bowles's students.
> 
The original UCSD Pascal Environment which ran on the Terak is text-based.
You are presented with a list of modes on the top line of the display and
type a letter to drop down a level in the hierarchy. This same interface was
used for the Lisa Pascal Workshop, which is built on top of SVS Pascal, a
68000 native Pascal compiler, instead of the P-Code interpreted UCSD system.
The original Macintosh applications were built in the Pascal Workshop
environment with Macintosh toolbox library extensions until the native tool
chain was available.

The most known Apple employee that came from the UCSD group is Bill
Atkinson. Al Hoffman was another, who supported MPW Pascal compiler.



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