[Coco] OS-9 Pascal P-code Interpreters

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Thu Sep 3 17:46:32 EDT 2015


On 08/30/2015 11:37 AM, Theodore (Alex) Evans wrote:
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> On 08/20/2015 01:49 PM, Joel Ewy wrote:
>> Hey, does anybody know if the OS-9 Pascal P-code interpreters are
>> compatible with other, UCSD-style P-code interpreters, such as the one
>> for the Apple II, CP/M, or the original IBM PC?  For a possible future
>> exhibit of classic computers at a local maker space, I would like to try
>> running a P-code program on a variety of vintage platforms, and I'd very
>> much like the CoCo to be one of them.
>
> The term P-code has been used arbitrarily in both a abstract sense (an
> virtual machine code) and a concrete sense (UCSD P-Code).  ... 

> Personally I would see if the compiler would work under
> another P-Code interpreter.  That would be a pretty sufficient test.
> If that works, your demo would probably work.
>
That might be a good way to try it.

JCE



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