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

From: Allison <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Mar 28 13:06:32 2002

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ssl.berkeley.edu>

>It also depended upon how the virtual machine was implemented. The
>Apple Pascal virtual machine was horrible. Compiled Pascal programs
>ran slower than their equivalent in interpreted Applesoft BASIC.

I'd agree though it made it possible to run the sources on a Z80 S100 crate,
a trs-80 and an apple and moveing the code around was done with a
simple serial utility (lack of common disk format!).

The best platform other than the microengine was PDP-11, The z80
wasn't too bad (comparable to Cbasic).

Allison
Received on Thu Mar 28 2002 - 13:06:32 GMT