[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>One often forgotten system was the UCSD p-System.  It executes programs
>compiled into a pseudo-code (p-code) which actually makes the binary
>portable from one system to another.  Quite advance for its time.  Never
>really took off as during that time it was competing with CP/M.  And due
>to its interpretive nature, runs slower than other OS.

Was the USCD p-System an OS that natively runs a Virtual Machine design
for its layered approach and security model? I remember the term p-code 
for this was mentioned in some docus in the Linux documentation
project on arguments re: compiled vs interpreted vs hybrid PL's (they
used it rather than relying on the Sun terminology of byte-code).


Paolo Alexis Falcone

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