Sounds somewhat similar to the IBM AS/400 (renamed many times). Applications were shipped as byte code and translated to the local machine architecture. The translated byte code was appended to the application, a but like NeXT fat binaries or OS-X's universal binaries.
The native byte code was 64bit, though iirc the first implementation used a 32bit address. The result was you could ship an application once and when it came time to move architectures all you had to do is one command to retranslate the byte code.
Very neat. I'm not sure why this approach hasn't been used more often.
EDIT: Looks like they're going exactly the AS/400 route.
The native byte code was 64bit, though iirc the first implementation used a 32bit address. The result was you could ship an application once and when it came time to move architectures all you had to do is one command to retranslate the byte code.
Very neat. I'm not sure why this approach hasn't been used more often.
EDIT: Looks like they're going exactly the AS/400 route.