★ APPLICATIONS ★ PROGRAMMATION ★ PASCAL MT + (c) Digital Research ★ |
| Pascal/MT+ (Pascal MT+80) | Applications Programmation |
Not flashy Although Digital Research cannot be regarded as saints or desperately keen to shave its profit margins, nobody can deny that it exceeded all expectations in the way it cut costs to help implement CP/M on the Amstrad machines (it's a pity it won't do the same for CP/M Plus on the DKTronics'memory boards). DR Pascal is in direct competition with two other common CP/M implementations of the language, Hisoft's Pascal and Turbo Pascal from the American company Borland. The latter two have the advantage that they can be run under CP/M 2.2 for the 464/664 machines as well (although DR's Pascal can be used to produce object code tht will run on these two machines). To give a detailed rundown of the differences between the various Pascals would take pages. Just bear in mind that Hisoft's is cheap and cheerful - just £39 including a nice screen editor. Turbo Pascal is friendly, flexible, fast, easy to use and with a vast number of support programs including toolbox modules, special Amstrad graphics and sound extensions, pre-written modifiable source code for database programs etc. It costs £70 for the basic system alone and is not entirely standard. The DR version is a very standard language - fuB ISO specification plus more (which makes the source code highly portable) and not surprisingly uses the CP/M operating system to its full advantage (although code can be produced that runs independently of the DOS). Debugger and disassembler options are provided. If you are interested in a serious system with nothing very Qashy (or non-standard) this is a strong contender.
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