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·3 か月前·議論
About 360 and pi: In the late 70's, "Two Pi Corporation" of Santa Clara made S/370-clone minicomputers named V/32. In early 1981, Two Pi was acquired by Four Phase Systems of Cupertino, a maker of early PMOS cpus. Four Phase was itself acquired in late 1981 by Motorola and withered away. Four Phase's campus was leveled and replaced by Apple's Infinite Loop campus, with nearly the same footprint.
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·7 か月前·議論
My partner Elaine Gord was on VisiOn's C compiler team in 1982-1984 with two others. They experimented with having two instruction sets: the native 8088 code for best performance, and a C virtual machine bytecode for code density. The two modes were mixed at the function level, and shared the same call/return stack mechanism. This was terrible for speed, but was thought necessary because the target machines did not have enough ram for the total VisiOn functionality. I don't know if the bytecode scheme got into "production".