Re: Basic09

Jeff Teunissen via Coco <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/[email protected]>
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Another benefit of Pascal on OS-9 is that the PascalS interpreter can run
programs larger than physical memory, by swapping in and out code pages.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 14:48 Tony Schountz via Coco <[email protected]>
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Mar 20, 2025, at 5:21 PM, Carlos Camacho via Coco <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> > Btw... I understand BASIC09 is like Pascal's pcode approach with virtual
> > machine of sorts. (Icode?)
>
> One of the benefits of Pascal-09 is the ability to send the pcode to asm,
> which made the final app much faster than equivalent BASIC09. I don’t know
> if that extended to graphics calls, though.
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