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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:52:01 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2024 04:38:54 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> Better Pascal than Modula/Modula-2.
> 
> It’s in the name: “modular”. Pascal had features like I/O and memory 
> management as predefined functions/procedures; Modula-2 made them into 
> library routines that could be implemented in Modula-2 itself.
> 
> Why? So that Modula-2 could be used to write an actual operating system 
> (Medos, for the Lilith workstation), which you couldn’t do in Pascal 
> alone.
> 

Operating Systems written in FPC

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Operating_Systems_written_in_FPC

I don’t know how much has been added to FPC above the base language.

-- 
Pete