Chuck wrote... -------- Meh, I'll not too willingly concede that one. P-code is also a made-up machine language. --------
But one difference I'll toss out there... p-code wasn't meant to be written in directly. Pick assembler was; so it included the full suite of ORG, EQU, MACRO, LIST, NOLIST type directives. I doubt most pcode does. Interesting to note - pick basic used p-code. The basic "compiler" (written in pick assembler) turned basic source into a byte oriented p-code. It was stack oriented, used RPN for expressions; each basic language statement generated a set of stack operations to perform the statement such that at the end of that statement everything was back as was before the code stream for that statement was executed. Of course, this p-code was executed interpretively. By missionary instructions ;) J
