Delphi was very popular in Europe, Germany especially.
There is also (previously? mentioned in another thread) EZGPIB, that is a Pascal based scripting system, for GPIB instrument/device control.
I believe that was probably created with Delphi.
Sadly it's author has passed, but his site lives on.
It's a Windows program, but will run in a guest VM on other OS's, if they can make USB peripherals available to the guest.? I've run it with NI-GPIB and common USB/Serial devices, running in a XP VM as a guest on Linux Mint in the past.
Regards.
Dave B (UK)
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