How was the wide user base measured? The maillist has 5 posts in the last half year, and the webpage only lists a handful comments on its demise.

Is there a forum somewhere or so?

Answer: Note that the page says in the late nineties (more mid than late nineties maybe). Since 2000 it pretty much collapsed, and even the main site is down currently, and even before 2000 it was already decreasing.

But to my knowledge that remark is pretty true, at least in Europe. The shareware/BBS scene, the OS/2 scene and the educational sector used it massively, also because it was one of the few affordable multi platform compilers before the open source movement really became usable. (and still the IDE, textmode as it is, is vastly superior over most open source ones in productivity).

That there never was a radical break from OS/2 and Dos was one of the reasons why VPascal died, though the main one was its unmaintainable codebase (pure assembler compiler!) with external nondistributable parts, all originating from its commercial past. 88.159.73.216 17:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Virtual Pascal was NOT designed by Allan Mertner. He only hired Vitaly Miryanov after Vitaly had already developed several quite usable beta versions of Virtual Pascal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.78.52.211 (talk) 18:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I only follow VPascal since later nineties, and afaik Alan never tried to mispresent this fact. He often even used Vitaly as an excuse to not fix bugs in the deep compiler ("Vitaly was a lot smarter than me" :-) 195.240.215.207 (talk) 08:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]