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- From: shyamal@seas.smu.edu (Shyamal Prasad)
- Subject: Re: What happened to the UCSD p-System?
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:52:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.162428.15881@coe.montana.edu> uesu03@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Lou Glassy) writes:
- >Is the idea of running code on virtual machines dead?
- >Found a couple of old books yesterday on the p-System and
- >MINT.
- >
- >The possibility of taking my binary from machine to machine,
- >(with possibly different physical architectures), and having
- >it run without dinking, is an intriguing one.
- >
- >Is any work going on in this area? Or does performance pay
- >more than portability?
- >
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- Just a passing comment - in these days when microcode is supposed to
- slow a machine down would anyone interpret p-code as the major
- execution mode ?
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- Shyamal Prasad, Department of Computer Science
- Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 72275
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