Stan Sieler wrote:
Hi,
A friend was claiming that with the UCSD P-System, one could "compile once"
and then "run anywhere" (where "anywhere" means different kinds of
computers running the P-System, not different instances of the same computer).
Was this true?
Funny that is what JAVA claims to be! I do remember that P-System
had
its own operating system.So only disk/console I/O and a p-code engine
had to be written for a new machine.
Too bad it was not open source!
Haven't been following the thread, so I don't know if some of this has been
said.
I think I have C code (ca-1985) that implements a p-code pascal->pcode compiler
and a pcode interpreter under unix. It's certainly not the full P-system,
though.
You can get Pascal source for an early compiler and interpreter on
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/psystem/index.html
You can also get an emulator there.
Eric