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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: function calls (long)
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Date: 21 Mar 90 00:45:47 GMT
References: <29509@amdcad.AMD.COM> <12350@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <584@bsovax.UUCP>
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In article <584@bsovax.UUCP> albert@BSOVAX.UUCP (Albert van der Horst) writes:
 > In article <12350@goofy.megatest.UUCP
 > > djones@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@cwi.nl