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From: robison@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: function calls (long)
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Date: 22 Mar 90 01:43:28 GMT
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[People wondering whether stack machines has been commercially built.]

Burroughs (now part of UNISYS) has been selling stack machines since
at least the 60's.  I think they even have a stack CPU on a chip now.

I remember a strong similarity between the early Burroughs stack
machines and the early versions of FORTH.  Can anyone comment on whether
FORTH was inspired by the Burroughs stack machines?

Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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