Infocom on PDP-11

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Mon May 9 10:13:39 CDT 2005


At 08:58 AM 5/9/2005, Paul Koning wrote:
>I believe the main reason is to make the code smaller.  P-code
>compilers have been used on the PDP-11 (the Algol compiler was ported
>there, and Fortran-4 was P-code).  Basic-Plus is P-code of course, and
>so is Forth.  Then there is UCSD Pascal.

I remember the Basic+ "decompiler"...  but it was simply detokenizing
and not turning a p-code back into BASIC, was it?

- John



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