# TIL: There existed Microsoft Pascal back in 1980s (2024-02-05)

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**Created:** [February 5, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/til-there-existed-microsoft-pascal-back-in-1980s-2024-02-05/66 "2024-02-05T08:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/til-there-existed-microsoft-pascal-back-in-1980s-2024-02-05/66/1 "2024-02-05T08:00:00Z")

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- turns out there existed [Microsoft Pascal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Pascal) back in 1980
  - [WinWorld: Microsoft Pascal 4.0](https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-pascal/40)
  - [https://archive.org/details/microsoft-pascal-compiler-4.0/Box-front.jpg](https://archive.org/details/microsoft-pascal-compiler-4.0/Box-front.jpg)
  - but wait there is more - The Microsoft Pascal Compiler was licensed to IBM, who sold it as the [IBM Pascal Compiler](https://winworldpc.com/product/ibm-pascal-compiler/)

- starting work on [my GED editor](https://github.com/draychev/ged) to replace the use of slice for storing lines with a linked list, an with this will emulate the behavior of some of the classic text editors - and then during editing \n will eventually inform us of the start of a new line