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Re:Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, an... by Crinus on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:12AM (#19908464)
Yeah, actually Microsoft used P-Code way before VB1 - AFAIK their C compiler was able to emit it and several of their products were compiled as P-Code instead of machine code, which helped to save disk space (a premium at the time, especially considering it could make a difference on how many floppy disks they shipped) and quickly port their applications to other emerging platforms at the time (like the Macintosh).

Both Microsoft's P-Code and Java were really inspired by UCSD Pascal which only emitted P-Code to be executed by a runtime they implemented quickly in a lot of systems (including the original IBM PC).

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Re:Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, an... by acqq on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:24AM (#19917390)
> Both Microsoft's P-Code and Java were really inspired by UCSD Pascal which only emitted P-Code

Yes, and I've actually experimented with UCSD Pascal on a 8-bit machine (Apple II). Turbo Pascal was, of course, much faster on it (using Z-80 card).

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