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Date: | Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:08:37 -0500 (CDT) |
From: | Adam W Lee <adalee AT sendit DOT sendit DOT nodak DOT edu> |
Message-Id: | <199706011608.LAA07010@sendit.sendit.NoDak.edu> |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Interpreted languages. |
>> Well, then, Pentium Pro assembly is an interpreted language. > >Nonsense. It is compiled into machine code which is then executed by the >processor. Not really, go read up on http://www.intel.com... I was looking into good methods for P2 assembly, and according to one of the pages I read, the P2 is basically a RISC chip which has to interpret the dinosaur 80x86 assembly in order to maintain backwards compatibility. atomly
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