Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Binary Compatibility period Message-ID: <400@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 21:47:25 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.400 Posted: Sun Nov 3 21:47:25 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:38:11 EST References: <248@omen.UUCP> <2320@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2347@hcradm.UUCP> <136@intelca.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 15 > The only way I can see UNIX becoming the "standard" will be if someone > (preferably AT&T) can develop a p-code (u-code ?) that all compilers could > generate, then all "ports" of UNIX would include the p-code assembler > as part of ld, it would have to be a very clearly specified code. How about pcc intermediate code? Since most 68000 and other non-PDP-11 UNIX 'C' compilers seem to be based on PCC, and since the interemediate code should be hardware independant (modulo byte ordering), this would allow 'C', Pascal, and Fortran-77 portability. Pcc mightn't be the fastest or the best compiler, but it's common enough... -- Name: Peter da Silva Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter