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To   : Holger Granholm
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Tue Nov 08 2016 12:24:27

 HG> To make large and fast programs I started using assembler, and later
 HG> I learned Turbo Pascal and also tried Turbo C. I stuck with Pascal.

   Ah yes, those were the days. Me too BTW.

   The PASCAL fido echo was where I spent most of my fido time in the early 
1990s. I even got quite a lot of snippets into the SWAG archive. Nowadays all 
the old mirrors seem to give you a 404, but my copy is still available at

   http://eljaco.se/SWAG/

   And the revolutionary concept of embedded assembler code in TP7 did give 
programs a real boost, such as in my "The Fastest Pi Calculator Ever":

   http://eljaco.se/files/TURBO/CALCPI.ZIP




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