[COFF] Compilation "vs" byte-code interpretation, was Re: Looking back to 1981 - what pascal was popular on what unix?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Feb 2 20:55:07 AEST 2022


    > From: Peter Jeremy

    > all (AFAIK) PDP-11's were microcoded

Not the -11/20; it pre-dated the fast, cheap ROMs needed to go the micocode
route, so it used a state machine. All the others were, though (well, I don't
know about the Mentec ones).

      Noel


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