Pascal MicroEngine

Pascal MicroEngine is a series of microcomputer products manufactured by Western Digital from 1979 through the mid-1980s, designed specifically to run the UCSD p-System efficiently.[1] Compared to other microcomputers, which use a machine language p-code interpreter, the Pascal MicroEngine has its interpreter implemented in microcode; p-code is its machine language. The most common programming language used on the p-System is Pascal.

The MicroEngine runs a special release III p-System. The enhancements of release III were incorporated into release IV which was made publicly available for other platforms but not for the MicroEngine.

  1. ^ Pascal "Cast in silicon" By Western Digital, InfoWorld, 11 Dec 1978, Page 2, ...under the trademarked name "Pascal Microengine," will be priced at $2995...First units are expected to be available in January, 1979...

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