programming, a p-code machine (portable code machine) is a virtual machine designed to execute p-code (the assembly language or machine code of a hypothetical...
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In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing...
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Look up p-code in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. P-code is an alternative term for bytecode, machine-independent code that achieves independence by...
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in which it was termed p-code and the resulting machine as a p-code machine. This has been influential, and virtual machines in this sense have been...
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A programmer writes code to produce a program that runs on a computer. Since a computer, at base, only understands machine code, source must be translated...
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Joel McCormack (section P-machine theory)
scientist who designed the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine, which is a kind of stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement...
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A machine code monitor (a.k.a. machine language monitor) is software that allows a user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on a computer...
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so a rich set of operations can be computed. In stack machine code (sometimes called p-code), instructions will frequently have only an opcode commanding...
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UCSD Pascal (redirect from UCSD p-System)
versions of UCSD p-code engine, each with several revisions of the p-System and UCSD Pascal. A revision of the p-code engine (i.e., the p-Machine) meant a change...
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