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Remember kids, there were a few 1980's OSes that made use of Pascal.

Nice to see yet another experiment that isn't always C or C++.



Mac OS 9 was written in Pascal, and so was the Berkeley P-System, a portable Pascal development environment from the 1970s, featuring a virtual machine that influenced the later JVM. Apple's Lisa OS was also implemented in Pascal.


UCSD p-System perhaps?


Yes, Apple II GS had a Pascal OS fully based on it.

http://pascal.hansotten.com/ucsd-p-system/apple-pascal/apple...


Indeed, e.g. Apple Lisa OS and the first Mac OS. But the present one so far is only around 100 lines; the author calls it a "bootloader". Here is a list of more complete systems: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Operating_Systems_written_in_FPC.


My employer (France Telecom) had a Unix written in Pascal running on a 68000 machine. But there were all the usual Unix tools on it, including a C compiler.


I used Apollo Aegis (later Domain), Three Rivers PERQ and CDC NOS, all written in some variant of Pascal.




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