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From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Addressing modes
Message-ID: <27@gilbbs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 16:27:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 16:27:43 1986
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In article <1989@peora.UUCP>, jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
> Note that in my original posting, I didn't say "interpret the semantics
> of the source code," I said interpret some *representation* of the source
> code.  There is a lot of work done by compilers (e.g., resolving symbolic
> references, translating infix arithmetic expressions with ASCII constants
> into a more manageable form, etc.) which takes a lot of time, and any
> machine (such as these microcomputers they are always building projects
> for in Byte that directly execute BASIC) which takes on that task will
> be much slower.

   A minor point, perhaps, but in fact there is no microprocessor on the
market that "directly executes BASIC."  There are a few that include a
ROM-based BASIC interpreter on-chip.  I realize that some people might 
consider me to be just a bit picky, but I don't consider this to be a
microporcessor that "directly executes BASIC."


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