FPK Pascal and GNU Pascal - a comparision
=========================================

by Florian Klaempfl <fnklaem@cip.ft.uni-erlangen.de>
and Peter Gerwinski <peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de>
22 September 1996

             FPK Pascal                         GNU Pascal
             ----------                         ----------

aim:         free Borland compatible            free portable
             32-bit Pascal compiler             32-bit Pascal compiler
 
version:     0.6.4                              2.0 (corresponding to GCC 2.7.2.1)

operating    DOS (DJGPP), OS/2, Linux           DOS (DJGPP), DOS (EMX),
systems:                                        Windows 95/NT (CygWin32),
                                                OS/2 (EMX), FreeBSD, Linux,
                                                other UNIX compatible systems

written in:  Pascal, TP Syntax                  C
             (compiles itself)

source:      900 kB                             6.4 MB plus source of GCC (27 MB)
                                                (including documentation etc.)

language     Borland Pascal 7.0,                ISO 7185 Standard Pascal (Level 0),
standard:    (parts of) Delphi II               (most of) ISO 10206 Extended Pascal,
                                                (most of) Borland Pascal 7.0

extensions:  function overloading               user-definable operators

home server: http://home.pages.de/~FPK-Pascal/  http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/
                                                ftp://kampi.hut.fi/jtv/gnu-pascal/

license:     Free Software (GPL)                Free Software (GPL)

author:      Florian Klaempfl, Germany          Jukka Virtanen, Finland
             fnklaem@cip.ft.uni-erlangen.de     jtv@hut.fi