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    17-Sep-91  06:50:58
Sb: #12266-#Basic-09 + RunB vs. C
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: SCOTT HOWELL 70270,641 (X)

An abstract or virtual machine is one that doesn't exist on silicon (or gallium
arsenide if you have the bucks, or whatever--any physical implementation).

Suppose nobody had ever actually made a 6809.  One could still write an
assembler for it, or compilers that generate 6809 instructions, but to run any
of the resulting programs would require an interpreter (maybe emulator is the
right term).

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