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[jeff_duntemann]

• Travelpost has a very nice online list of airport Wi-Fi hotspots. There's an alphabetical list of all equipped airports, and a list of the top 20 airports in the country. Colorado Springs has a very nice system, totally free, and cleverly limited to the area by the

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[unkbar]

(Didn't Borland turn a lot of their ancient stuff loose as free downloads at one point?)

Dunno, but the best learning environment I ever encountered was the UCSD/Softech/Pecan Pascal system.

Wonder if anybody has implemented a P-code interpreter for .NET? That would put two levels of interpretation (well, one of interptretation and one of JIT compilation) between the code and the silicon.

[jeff_duntemann]

P-System! Pecan Systems! I had that and it worked, though I'm sure it was slow by even 1986 standards. A .NET interpreter is unlikely, but if I've learned anything in this business it's that you should never assume that nobody has the time to do any arbitrarily useless thing.

An update: Borland has in fact made Turbo Pascal 3.02 available for free download:

http://bdn.borland.com/article/20792

I was running it in a DOS box just now. I loaded some of the example programs from Complete Turbo Pascal Second Edition and boy, does it trot at 4 GHz!

[shoei_mike]

Even runs OK in a PC/XT emulator on a PDA. Highly Mobile Turbo Pascal...