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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Floating Point Risc
Message-ID: <41518@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Apr 91 21:58:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr20.063947.12811@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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How about addressing memory using addresses similar to the Dewey decimal
system?  This numbering system allows you to insert an arbitrary number
of entries in any arbitrary place, without disturbing the rest of the
numbering system.  E.g. if you want to put something between 11.44.008
and 11.44.009, you can just create a new address 11.44.008.01.  The
Xanadu hypertext project is using a similar number system.

This feature would allow you to insert into a list without having any links.
No pointers ever have to be moved.