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> That Burroughs was one of the first bytecode based OSes? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Larg
by skissane 4y ago
> That Burroughs was one of the first bytecode based OSes?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems
I don't know how you get that from that article, because I can't see the word "bytecode" anywhere in it. What text in that article do you think supports your contention?
> And thanks for making having another look into it, as it clearly points out there are emulators and native implementations (MCP CMOS),
The same article contains this sentence: "Unisys stopped producing the hardware in the early 2010s, and the operating system is now run under emulation"
So there was proprietary hardware, up to about 10 years ago, but nowadays it is all standard x86-64 servers running their software emulator
- kjs3 4y agoWe run Clearpath at $DAYJOB. I haven't cracked open one of them to look myself, but the folks running them have told me they're pretty much bog standard, high-end x86-64 servers running a Unisys VM. No proprietary hardware.
- fsckboy 4y ago> I don't know how you get that from that article, because I can't see the word "bytecode" anywhere in it. What text in that article do you think supports your contention? not sure if you're hung up on the word "byte", but it says the architecture is a stack machine and that's what p-code/bytecode interpreters emulate, so whether it's byte codes or word codes, it's essentially the same thing