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Gabriele Galeotti <gabriele.galeotti.xyz@gmail.com> writes:
> In the 80s, there was P-code on the Apple II... 25 years later, Java
> bytecode came out, exactly the same thing, a cheeky clone.

The JVM isn't really comparable to P-code.  It is a lot fancier,
including features for multithreading and for garbage collection.