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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What the new Amiga-OS *must* have
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 03:26:46 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Magnus Holmgren (cmh@lls.se) wrote:
- : In a message of 25 Mar 96, Cmarschn wrote to :
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- : >> By inventing a new instruction set (one that could easily be converted
- : >> to 68K, PPC etc.) and having executables with that instruction format,
- : >> one executable could be executed on any processor type provided there
- : >> is some translation program available.
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- : C> Sounds *pretty* slow.
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- : Doesn't have to be.. Java uses a similar concept. It usually compiles to a
- : CPU-independant form, that interpreters can run fairly quickly. And that
- : code can then be compiled to native code, if the need should arise. And
- : the second part could be a part of the program installation..
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- I wish they would have used an already existing language tho, like C.
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- Stephan
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