In <!&[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html