Alcor Pascal

The Alcor Pascal compiler grew out of the desire four years ago to have a quality Pascal compiler for CP/M use. At that time there were no professional quality compilers on the popular CP/M operating systems that were very memory efficient. After two years of development a completely operational compiler emerged that saw several hundred thousand lines of Pascal code run through it. At this time it was decided that this compiler formed an ideal basis for the first professional quality Pascal compiler on the TRS-80. Since a void existed, and Pascal's popularity was ever increasing, it was decided to enter the TRS-80 market.

A project team was formed and 1½ man years later saw the Alcor Pascal compiler introduced as a commercial product. This underlines the amount of work required to take a completed system and make it a viable commercial software product. The Pascal compiler consists of 17,500 lines of assembly language runtime support and over 8,500 lines of Pascal source code. Not a minimal amount of work for a product in this price category!