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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: What happened to the UCSD p-System?
- Organization: BC News and Mail
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:17:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <By54pz.9x2@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Nov17.162428.15881@coe.montana.edu> <8qmiuB1w164w@hub.parallan.com> <51781@drilex.dri.mgh.com>
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- In article <51781@drilex.dri.mgh.com> dricejb@drilex.dri.mgh.com (Craig Jackson) writes:
- >In article <8qmiuB1w164w@hub.parallan.com> richardw@hub.parallan.com (Richard Walter) writes:
- }>(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
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- }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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- I remember hearing about this in the early 80's. Rumour had it that they
- did cross development on larger systems (DEC 10's??).
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- Need to cross post this to alt.folklore.computers.
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