UCSD P-System & "compile once, run anywhere"

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Wed Mar 27 19:03:42 2002

Stan Sieler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A friend was claiming that with the UCSD P-System, one could "compile once"
> and then "run anywhere" (where "anywhere" means different kinds of
> computers running the P-System, not different instances of the same computer).
>
> Was this true?
Funny that is what JAVA claims to be! I do remember that P-System had
its own operating system.So only disk/console I/O and a p-code engine
had to be written for a new machine.
Too bad it was not open source!

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