[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 __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
