In
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on 07/19/2006
at 11:44 AM, Ray Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>That reminds me of the "next great thing" in the PC world (which
>then was mostly Apple, with a few 8080 and z80 boxes thrown in)
>circa 1981 - UCSD Pascal. It created and ran byte code.
ITYM P-code.
>is - it's never gonna be faster than compiling to the native machine
>code.
Never? BTDTGTTS. The 360/85, 370/165 and 370/168 simulated some
instructions in a single cycle.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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