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

[Paul Winalski]

On 1/30/22, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
>
> And I think I've heard the Infocom compilers' bytecode called "Z-code" (I
> use this term too).
>
That is correct.  The Infocom games ran on an interpreter for an
abstract machine called the Z-machine.  Z-code is the Z-machine's
instruction set.  There is a freeware implementation out there called
Frotz.

-Paul W.

"Plugh" (said in a hollow voice)