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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

}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.

I remember hearing about this in the early 80's. Rumour had it that they
did cross development on larger systems (DEC 10's??).

Need to cross post this to alt.folklore.computers.

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