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- From: dricejb@drilex.dri.mgh.com (Craig Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What happened to the UCSD p-System?
- Message-ID: <51781@drilex.dri.mgh.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 16:12:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.162428.15881@coe.montana.edu> <8qmiuB1w164w@hub.parallan.com>
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- In article <8qmiuB1w164w@hub.parallan.com> richardw@hub.parallan.com (Richard Walter) writes:
- >Also, I read recently (within the last 6 months) in some trade journal
- >(Info-world, I think) that Microsoft is writing some windows application
- >(I think it was a database) in p-code for some reason. (I know that
- >this last bit sounds really, really hazy, but I do know that I saw
- >the headline with something like "Microsoft brings back P-Code" (there
- >I go being vague again...:)).
- >
- >-Richard Walter
- >richardw@parallan.com
-
- I have been told that many Microsoft applications over the years, back to
- the original PDP-11/45 Xenix, used something like P-code. I believe this is
- one reason why that Excel and Word for the Macintosh and Windows until
- recently didn't exhibit the segment structure normally found in
- applications on those platforms.
-
- I think that something like Pcode is the only likely explanation why
- Multiplan ran on everything in sight at one point in the mid-'80s.
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