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For me, Turbo Pascal was always the killer app for CP/M, though Wordstar & VisiCalc are probably more important overall.

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I still play around with Turbo Pascal on CP/M a lot for fun - it is a shockingly good development environment (even on a 4 MHz CPU my edit/compile/debug loop is usually <10 seconds, which is pretty fast even by modern standards). And it could all trivially fit in the L1 cache of a modern CPU.

I haven't tested Turbo Pascal on it, since i'm not a Pascal programmer, but the HiTech-C compiler runs and creates working executables, its not a stretch that Turbo Pascal would either.

Ummm...why would there be any doubt Turbo Pascal can create working executables?

Why would there be an assumption I have implemented all the emulation completely and correctly enough for it to run?

If it doesn't, there's a bug in my emulator, end of story. I have had to implement all kinds of things to make various software work correctly, and there's probably still more to do.

Why would you assume I'm talking about your emulator. I just said I liked Turbo Pascal.

Oh. I see. I was talking about in the context of my UE4 Z80 emulator, the top post in this thread :-) no biggie.

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