From: "Robert Comer" 

> And if you're running on any modern Intel processor, the microcode itself
> can be considered another level of abstraction.  And if you're running on
> an Itanic, may God have mercy on your soul, etc.

> See, all the P-System needed was more CPU, and no pre-allocation.

No doubt about that!

> Of course, when the filesystem is itself a database, it does make it a bit
> dicey to hand-recover munged data at the sector level (g).

On an AS/400?  I don't even want to think how you'd go about doing that,
what with everything being scatter loaded, in addition to the differences
in file system!

- Bob Comer




"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:428a0967$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >It's still a  working program even if it is intermediate code on top of a
> >runtime environment of some kind.
>
> And if you're running on any modern Intel processor, the microcode itself
> can be considered another level of abstraction.  And if you're running on
> an Itanic, may God have mercy on your soul, etc.
>
> See, all the P-System needed was more CPU, and no pre-allocation.
>
> Of course, when the filesystem is itself a database, it does make it a bit
> dicey to hand-recover munged data at the sector level (g).
>

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