Intro msg: Teraks, emulators, reviving cassette data

Cameron asks: I don't know. The Java Virtual Machine book sheds some light, as would a Burroughs B6500 instruction set manual. (The p-code was heavily influenced by the B6500...which was the main machine used by the UCSD computer center, and for which Dr. Bowles designed an attached array processor.) From: http://www.realtime-info.be/encyc/techno/terms/85/68.htm I found: The intermediate code produced by the Pascal-P compiler. Assembly language for a hypothetical stack machine, the P-machine, said to have been an imitation of the intstruction set for the Burroughs Large System. The term was first used in Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, N. Wirth, P-H 1976. Byte articles on writing a Pascal Compiler in Northstar BASIC (ca Aug 1978) also used the term. Later used in Apple Pascal, and as the intermediate language in the UCSD P-system. Variants: P2 P-code, P4 P-code, UCSD P-code, LASL P-code. Address: USUS, Box 1148, La Jolla, CA 92038, USA. ["A Comparison of PASCAL Intermediate Languages", P.A. Nelson, SIGPLAN Notices 14(8):208-213 (Aug 1979)]. The SIGPLAN issue can be ordered from: http://www.rowan.edu/sigplan/backissues.html