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FST Modula-2 is a Modula-2 development system for DOS originally introduced in 1987 as a fairly simple shareware compiler that over time grew to include an IDE, a make facility, a linker, an automatic makefile generator and an execution profiler with only really a proper debugger missing for a decent M2 development system.

FST Modula-2 had a few features that were either unique or uncommon with other M2 for DOS development systems. It could for instance make use of C and other "foreign" libraries to a degree, and it had object-oriented extensions unique to the system that the program author designed in conjunction with noted Modula-2 authority Pat Terry of Rhodes University.

FST stopped developing the product in 1996 and in 1998 announced that he would release the package as freeware a little later in the year as version 4. However, what you got when you registered the program was the source to the libraries and this was not a part of the freeware release, which makes using the foreign libraries impossible since you have to change a part of the library.

Version

2.0a (Nov 1988)
2.0b (May 1989)
3.0
3.1 (Oct 1992)
3.5 (Jul 1995) - Shareware
4.0s (May 1996) - Freeware
Basically a re-release of version 3.5 without the shareware notice and minor documentation changes.

Prerequisites

DOS version 2 or higher, any version of OS/2 with the DOS subsystem installed.

Publications

S. R. Ladd: Modula-2 Compilers: New Kids on the Block Mature - Computer Language, March 1989 - pages 99 to 110. (FSTM2 v2.0a)

License

Originally shareware, now closed source freeware.

Author

Fitted Software Tools.
Roger Carvalho
Pat Terry (Help with documentation and OOP)

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-A [[Modula-2]] development system for [[DOS]] originally introduced in 1987 as a fairly simple shareware compiler that over time grew to include an [[IDE]], a [[make]] facility, a linker, an automatic makefile generator and a      execution profiler with only really a proper debugger missing for a decent M2 development system.
+'''FST Modula-2''' is a [[Modula-2]] development system for [[DOS]] originally introduced in 1987 as a fairly simple shareware compiler that over time grew to include an [[IDE]], a [[make]] facility, a linker, an automatic makefile generator and an execution profiler with only really a proper debugger missing for a decent M2 development system.
-FST Modula-2 had a few features that were either unique or uncommon with other M2 for DOS development systems, it could for instance make use of [[C]] and other "foreign" libraries to a degree, and it had [[object oriented]] extensions unique to the system that program author designed in conjunction with noted Modula-2 authority Pat Terry of Rhodes University.
+FST Modula-2 had a few features that were either unique or uncommon with other M2 for DOS development systems. It could for instance make use of [[C]] and other "foreign" libraries to a degree, and it had object-oriented extensions unique to the system that the program author designed in conjunction with noted Modula-2 authority Pat Terry of Rhodes University.
-FST stopped developing the product in 1996 and in 1998 announced that he would release the package as freeware a little later in the year as version 4, however what you got when you registered the program was the source to the libraries and this was not a part of the freeware release, which makes using the foreign libraries impossible since you have to change a part of the library. There is no functional difference between the Shareware version of 3.5 and the freeware v4 so no need to hunt down 4 if you have version 3.5
+FST stopped developing the product in 1996 and in 1998 announced that he would release the package as freeware a little later in the year as version 4. However, what you got when you registered the program was the source to the libraries and this was not a part of the freeware release, which makes using the foreign libraries impossible since you have to change a part of the library.
 ==Version==
-* Last known version: 4.0s
+* 2.0a (Nov 1988)
-: Basically a re-release of version 3.5 without the shareware notice. There is no real difference between any of the 4.0x releases.
+* 2.0b (May 1989)
+* 3.0
+* 3.1 (Oct 1992)
+* 3.5 (Jul 1995) - Shareware
+* 4.0s (May 1996) - Freeware
+*:Basically a re-release of version 3.5 without the shareware notice and minor documentation changes.
 ;Prerequisites
-* DOS version 2 or higher, any version os OS/2 with the DOS subsystem installed.
+* DOS version 2 or higher, any version of OS/2 with the DOS subsystem installed.
-==Links & documentation==
+==Publications==
-* S. R. Ladd,: Modula-2 Compilers: New Kids on the Block Mature. - Computer Language magazine March 1989 - pages 99 to 110. (FSTM2 v2.0a)
+* S. R. Ladd: ''Modula-2 Compilers: New Kids on the Block Mature'' - Computer Language, March 1989 - pages 99 to 110. (FSTM2 v2.0a)
 ==License==