Re: CISC to RISK -- MIDRANGE-L

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> Color me ignorant but I thought what was needed to make software written for
> CISC work for RISC was to tweak some byte in the compile so that the code
> contains what RISC calls "observables."  Moving the stuff around on different
> platforms is doable, but if the original code is not "observable" it aint
> gonna work on a RISC machine.


there is a conversion process it goes thru to process on the risc
machine.  it can be done as the restore is happening, as a program run
later (cvt something), or even when the object is first opened.  if the
objects are not observable, they won't convert, and won't run.  then you
can recompile, and if you don't have the source, you're stuck.

nj
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