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- From: ell@access4.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 20:55:48 GMT
- Organization: The Universe
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- Ell (ell@access2.digex.net) wrote:
- : Richard Krehbiel (rich@kastle.com) wrote:
- : : Anybody remember the UCSD Pascal system?
- : :
- : : The executables were interpreted UCSD Pascal P-code (they didn't call
- : : it a virtual CPU). A CPU was even created to run the P-code directly
- : : (the Pascal Microengine was a re-microcoded LSI-11 chip set). Remind
- : : anyone of the Java chips Sun intends to create?
- : :
- : : The system sank. Nobody wants real applications delivered this way,
- : : when they could instead have native-code performance.
-
- : Wasn't this related to an OS of the similar name. And it was that DOS
- : that dusted off the that OS.
-
- [Whoops, should be: Didn't DOS dust off that p-code based OS, by IBM's
- embrace of DOS?]
-
- : Didn't this also have something to do with
- : Lilith - the Modula machine?
-
-
- Elliott
-