function calls (long)

[Dik T. Winter]

In article <584 at bsovax.UUCP> albert at BSOVAX.UUCP (Albert van der Horst) writes:
 > In article <12350 at goofy.megatest.UUCP
 > > djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
 > > ( In a follow up on Tim Olson)c
 > >What I would like to see is a register-set that acts as the cache for
 > >a virtual stack in a machine with true stack machine instructions.
 > 
 > This idea is not new.

No, indeed.  Look at the English Electric KDF9 (of fifties vintage).
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik at cwi.nl