Everything about UCSD Pascal

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: UCSD PascalA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: IBM PC ApprenticeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Implementing data abstractions and monitors in UCSD PascalCited 7 times
4. Go sideways: Pascal MicroEngineA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Pascal (programming language)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Implementing data abstractions and monitors in UCSD Pascal

  David E. Boddy · 1983 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 7 citations

• Improving the performance of UCSD Pascal via microprogramming on the PDP-11/60

  Mark T. Schaefer, Yale N. Patt · 1983 · ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter · 3 citations

• An introduction to the UCSD PASCAL system

  Kenneth L. Bowles, James D. Hollan · 1978 · Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation · 2 citations

• Software/courseware exchange for UCSD pascal

  Kenneth L. Bowles · 1978 · ACM SIGMINI Newsletter · 1 citations

• UCSD Pascal on the VAX, portability and performance

  Daniel R. Perkins, Dennis Volper · 1984 · Software: Practice and Experience · 1 citations

• UCSD PASCAL licensing

  · 1980 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 0 citations

• The UCSD Pascal handbook

  · 1983 · Advances in Engineering Software (1978) · 0 citations

• UCSD-PASCAL users form European Chapter

  · 1980 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• IBM PC ApprenticeInc. Wordware Pub., Leonard Paul Kubiak · 1984
• 📕Einführung in das Programmieren in PASCALGerhard Niemeyer · 1980
• 📕UCSD Pascal for the IBM PCIain MacCallum · 1985
• Ucsd Pascal HandbookRandy Clark · 1981
• 📕Programming the IBM Personal ComputerSeymour V. Pollack · 1983
• Personal computing with the UCSD p-SystemMark Overgaard · 1983
• UCSD PascalJ. N. P. Hume, J.N.P. Hume · 1982
• Advanced UCSD Pascal programming techniquesEliakim Willner, Barry Demchak · 1985

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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