LLL Re:many [far30] [djg19]

[Michael David WINIKOFF]

> 
> Actually, it HAS been done before!  They called it p-code.  It was
> part of UCSD Pascal.  It ran on both PDP-11s and 8080s, after having
> only a boot disk different between them.  Of course, it went
> commercial at version 1.5, and didn't last long past the introduction
> of the PC, but it was available for the PC.  It also ran on Apple ][s
> as well, and I heard that someone built a CPU that ran it as machine 
> code.  Who wants to try again?

Yes but P-code wasn't succesful in that there was too much of a speed loss.
They weren't compiling on the fly.
(P-Code had other problems)

[This is from an article I read -- I haven't actually seen/used P-code]

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Michael Winikoff 		winikoff@cs.mu.oz.au
Computer science honours. University of Melbourne, Australia.