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From: corre@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan D Corre)
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Subject: Re: Is Anyone Working On A Unicode Version Of Icon?
Date: 22 May 2000 04:21:06 GMT
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In article <200005171922.MAA09657@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU> Cary Coutant
<cary@cup.hp.com> writes:
>
>At the time, I was just copying the idea of a bytecode interpreter from
>the Pascal p-system. Little did I realize that Sun had yet to "invent"
>bytecode!
This prompts me to ask a question that has been bothering me for some time,
and to which I would appreciate a reply that is not overly technical. I used
Apple Pascal what seems like eons ago. It was a really nice system, invented
by Ken Bowles, if I remember correctly. My question is, why is there so much
fuss about Java working across different platforms? Was not the p-system a
"virtual machine" which could function in just that way?
--
Alan D. Corre
Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/