Infocom on PDP-11

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "John" == John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> writes:

 John> 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.

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

I would assume so; going all the way back to BASIC would be rather
hard.

On the other hand, there was RT11 BASIC, which also used a compact
internal format, but that one was sufficiently close to the source
that a LIST command would reconstruct the source code from the
compacted internal form.

	  paul