<s>
The	O
Atari	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
Language	O
System	O
(	O
usually	O
shortened	O
to	O
Atari	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
)	O
is	O
a	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
Pascal	B-Application
programming	I-Application
language	I-Application
released	O
by	O
Atari	O
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
for	O
the	O
Atari	B-Device
8-bit	I-Device
family	I-Device
of	O
home	O
computers	O
in	O
March	O
1982	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Atari	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
was	O
published	O
through	O
the	O
Atari	B-Application
Program	I-Application
Exchange	I-Application
as	O
unsupported	O
software	O
instead	O
of	O
in	O
Atari	O
's	O
official	O
product	O
line	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Atari	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
was	O
developed	O
by	O
MT	O
Microsystems	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
owned	O
by	O
Digital	O
Research	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
's	O
similar	O
to	O
MT/PASCAL	O
+	O
from	O
the	O
same	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
compiler	O
produces	O
code	O
for	O
a	O
virtual	O
machine	O
,	O
as	O
with	O
UCSD	B-Language
Pascal	I-Language
,	O
instead	O
of	O
generating	O
machine	O
code	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
resulting	O
programs	O
are	O
as	O
much	O
as	O
seven	O
times	O
faster	O
than	O
Apple	B-Operating_System
Pascal	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
MT	O
Microsystems	O
wrote	O
Atari	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
with	O
a	O
planned	O
"	O
super	O
Atari	O
"	O
8-bit	O
model	O
in	O
mind	O
,	O
one	O
with	O
128K	O
of	O
RAM	O
and	O
dual-floppy	O
drives	O
(	O
similar	O
to	O
a	O
common	O
configuration	O
of	O
the	O
1983	O
Apple	B-Device
IIe	I-Device
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
machine	O
never	O
materialized	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
software	O
was	O
released	O
because	O
of	O
pressure	O
within	O
Atari	O
,	O
though	O
only	O
through	O
the	O
Atari	B-Application
Program	I-Application
Exchange	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Atari	O
's	O
1980	O
in-store	O
demonstration	O
program	O
mentions	O
Pascal	B-Application
as	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
available	O
programming	O
languages	O
,	O
despite	O
Atari	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
not	O
being	O
released	O
until	O
1982	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Draper	O
Pascal	B-Application
was	O
released	O
in	O
1983	O
and	O
Kyan	O
Pascal	B-Application
in	O
1986	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
works	O
with	O
a	O
single	O
floppy	O
drive	O
,	O
a	O
point	O
emphasized	O
in	O
Draper	O
Pascal	B-Application
magazine	O
ads	O
.	O
</s>
