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A [[Pascal]] development system from [[MetaWare]] that ran on DOS and VAX/VMS, with editions later appearing for AT&T UNIX. Professional Pascal has full cross-development features, any version of a PP host can generate code for any other version, however you had to purchase a full compiler for each system to take advantage of this feature as each development system only came with code generation and libraries for | A [[Pascal]] development system from [[MetaWare]] that ran on DOS and VAX/VMS, with editions later appearing for AT&T UNIX. Professional Pascal has full cross-development features, any version of a PP host can generate code for any other version, however you had to purchase a full compiler for each system to take advantage of this feature as each development system only came with code generation and libraries for its host system. | ||
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**It was mostly a "feature catchup" release, it has added features that competing systems had been introducing in the last couple of years prior, this was done both as a marketing play and to enhance compatibility. | **It was mostly a "feature catchup" release, it has added features that competing systems had been introducing in the last couple of years prior, this was done both as a marketing play and to enhance compatibility. | ||
**Prerequisites: DOS 2.0 or higher, 256k memory, Two floppy drives or a hard drive. | **Prerequisites: DOS 2.0 or higher, 256k memory, Two floppy drives or a hard drive. | ||
*2.6 | |||
*2.7 (1987) | *2.7 (1987) | ||
*2.8 (1991) | *2.8 (1991) | ||
Revision as of 22:46, 20 June 2023
A Pascal development system from MetaWare that ran on DOS and VAX/VMS, with editions later appearing for AT&T UNIX. Professional Pascal has full cross-development features, any version of a PP host can generate code for any other version, however you had to purchase a full compiler for each system to take advantage of this feature as each development system only came with code generation and libraries for its host system.
Versions
- 2.3 (1986)
- It was mostly a "feature catchup" release, it has added features that competing systems had been introducing in the last couple of years prior, this was done both as a marketing play and to enhance compatibility.
- Prerequisites: DOS 2.0 or higher, 256k memory, Two floppy drives or a hard drive.
- 2.6
- 2.7 (1987)
- 2.8 (1991)
- for MS-DOS 80x86 or for Extended-DOS 386/486