From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Interpreted languages.
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 17:29:24 -0700
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Adam W Lee wrote:

> 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.

Yes, but the processor can directly accept 80x86 instructions.  That
definitely makes it machine language, and thus turning source code into
80x86 machine language is definitely "compiling."

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