The comment I made was based on another person's view that p-code was intrepreted and so was .NET - apples and apples sort of thing... I don't recall any Microsoft product that created p-code which could be executed without compiling and then you could compile the p-code and execute that too. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Battle <frustum(a)pacbell.net> Sent: Sep 29, 2004 8:46 AM To: General Discussion@null, On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>rg>, null@null Subject: Re: Code Generation .NET Steve Thatcher wrote: That sounded like an assertion waiting to be disproven. 15 seconds with google produced this link: http://www.threedee.com/jcm/psystem/ Heath Z-80 UCSD p-System, six 5 1/4" disks: "SYSTEM 1," "SYSTEM 2," "ZINT," "PASCAL," "UTILS," "Native code generator NZ84BP". That was contemporaneous. Something more recent: http://www.pascal-central.com/pcode.html Spend a few more minute and find more links.