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

Ian S. King isking at uw.edu
Thu Aug 16 22:12:02 PDT 2012


I have 8" floppy media for UCSD Pascal that runs on my MINC-11; I have
not attempted to run it on other PDP-11s yet.  It behaves as Al
describes.  -- Ian

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Al Kossow <kossow at computerhistory.org> wrote:
> 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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-- 
Ian S. King, MSCS ('06, Washington)
Ph.D. Student
The Information School
University of Washington



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