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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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On 26 Sep 2024 01:32:26 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> I bought the CP/M version of Turbo Pascal mostly on a whim. "50 bucks --
> this I gotta see."

There was actually a product called “JRT Pascal” before that, which was 
even cheaper. But not as successful.

> iirc it had enough non-standard extensions to be useful ...

Basically it was a member of the UCSD Pascal family.