Easiest groups/lineages of machines to port software between?

[Dave Britten]

(05-13-2015 07:01 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote:  

(05-13-2015 01:55 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  Yes, but still worth mentioning. Impressive that it could convert RPN keystroke programs to BASIC.

I think you may have it backwards - HP41 programs were able to be run on the 71B but conversion to BASIC was not involved.

Jake

Oh, so it's not like the 41C card reader that would convert 67 programs on the fly? Was it a bytecode interpreter, or would it convert them to actual 71 machine code that could be run independently?