In a message dated 11/8/2004 7:57:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Before there was this new fangled Universe and Unidata, PICK was a platform > independent os/database. It used to run on a variety of platforms from big > IBM mainframes all the way down to small minicomputers, and then when PC's > were invented (8086 based!!) even on them. > It still is platform independent. > This was all achieved by having a PICK Virtual Machine, which was ported to > each of these platforms. This VM had a very strange structure, with a > number of registers and it's own set of instructions. The language used to > program this VM at a low level was called the PICK assembler. I believe > this is the language being referred to... There are still virtual machine implementations being done. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
