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I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen in 1993

History of the development of my Pascal compiler for transputer when I was age 13.

The transputer board was essentially the T805 processor surrounded by 32K of high-speed RAM memory, and only able to send and receive serial data through a transceiver. I went to work and I made a quick&dirty converter of P-code to transputer, and I was pretty happy although the compiler running in BASIC language was incredibly slow. For this article I've extracted the last version of my Pascal compiler, and given we don't have the host Z280 computer, I had to write the support software in modern C. Namely the emulator for the transputer processor, and the assembler.

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