In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Loguidice 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

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>* Eventually this game code was compiled into an intermediate code called
>ELTHAM (Extra Low Tech Highly Ambiguous Methodology or alternativly
>Extra Low Tech Highly Ambiguous Metacode).
>
>* The ELTHAM code implemented a subset of the 68000 machine code. It was
>executed "natively" on ST, Amiga, QL, Macintosh and emulated on the
>other systems. The virtual machine used up to 64k. On 8 bit machines
>they used virtual memory mechanisms. On the C64 non-active pages were
>held on the floppy disc. Only "read-only" pages were swapped.

Hi Bill,

I actually work in a town in South-east London, called Eltham ... :-)

-- 
Malcolm Cadman
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