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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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