Quoting the great Timo Noko on X:
« I wrote Pascal for 8080 in 1976 and Finnish Army even paid some money for it.
I was truly disappointed that Turbo Pascal did not copy my handy PORT-metavariable. You can write & read IO-ports without any extra hässle: »
https://x.com/TimoNoko/status/2088526751693496346
The screenshot makes his point very well.
EDIT: oh! I see he commented downthread!