UCSD P-System & "compile once, run anywhere" - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Mar 2002

From: Eric J. Korpela &lt;korpela(a)ssl.berkeley.edu&gt;

...
 It also depended upon how the virtual machine was
implemented.  The
Apple Pascal virtual machine was horrible.  Compiled Pascal programs
ran slower than their equivalent in interpreted Applesoft BASIC. 
I'd agree though it made it possible to run the sources on a Z80 S100 crate,
a trs-80 and an apple and moveing the code around was done with a
simple serial utility (lack of common disk format!).

The best platform other than the microengine was PDP-11,  The z80
wasn't too bad (comparable to Cbasic).

Allison