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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Way to Port All of This Software?

Sally Kohn: "I kind of had this epiphany. Because it reminded me of a summer job that I had had in grad school" She says her thesis advisor asked her to come up with a way to port software from early workstations to VACs. Kohn used P code on the three rivers perks into assembly code on the VACs and got higher quality code than the C compiler.

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