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Article #11261Re: What happened to the UCSD p-System?
From: Shyamal Prasad
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:52
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:52
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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? > 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 ? -- Shyamal Prasad, Department of Computer Science Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 72275
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.uta.edu!utacfd.uta.edu!seas.smu.edu!shyamal From: shyamal@seas.smu.edu (Shyamal Prasad) Subject: Re: What happened to the UCSD p-System? Message-ID: <1992Nov18.225242.5841@seas.smu.edu> Sender: news@seas.smu.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: rapid_f.seas.smu.edu Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science References: <1992Nov17.162428.15881@coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:52:42 GMT Lines: 20