[Oberon] The Modula-2 System for Z80 CP/M (Peter Hochstrasser)

[Bob Walkden]

> On 3 Mar 2017, at 01:46, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Bob Walkden wrote:
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>>> Some years back I wrote to Borland in an attempt to get the sources for TM2, but they denied ever selling such a product - go figure.
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>> If I remember correctly, Borland bought Topspeed Modula-2, formerly JPI Modula-2, and it eventually became absorbed in Clarion Developer (?) and lost its separate identity. I don't remember it ever being called Turbo M2, but it was a long time ago, and I may have it wrong.
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> They may have acquired Topspeed / JPI M2, but those were for the Intel PC environment.  The product I'm referring to was specific for Z80 CP/M and never appeared in a PC flavor.  It compiled to "M-Code" and linked in the runtime engine.  Programs may have run somewhat slower than the output from a true native compiler but the intermediate code was very compact and, I believe, relocatable.  [...]

Thanks for that info - I was completely unaware of that product.

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