The UCSD p-System is a highly portable operating system. It uses the Pascal programming language, and all applications are compiled to interpreted bytecode. This means an application written for the p-System should run on any p-System platform, regardless of the CPU and architecture. However, depending on the use, it could be quite slow.
A number of commercial applications were written for the UCSD p-System, but it lost its portability advantage as the industry standardized on the x86 IBM PC architecture.
source is bitsavers: http://bitsavers.org/bits/IBM/PC/p-system
The Pascal compiler is from a different source, and might be an updated version. Also includes an alternate "SYSTEM2" disk.
Missing manual: "6936508 - UCSD Pascal Reference for the UCSD p-System"
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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UCSD p-System IV for IBM PC (Release 1) (1982) (5.25-160k) | IV for IBM PC (Release 1) | English | 709.89KB | 0 | |
UCSD p-System IV for IBM PC Manuals (1982) | IV for IBM PC | English | 42.48MB | 0 | |
UCSD p-System IV for NEC APC (boot) (8-inch) | IV for NEC APC (boot) | English | 382.93KB | 0 | |
UCSD p-System IV for TI Professional Computer Manuals (1983) | IV for TIPC | English | 368.88MB | 0 |