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From: jonah@dgp.toronto.edu (Jeff Lee)
Subject: Re: Floating Point Risc
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.100908.9521@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
References: <1991Apr20.063947.12811@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <41518@cup.portal.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 14:09:08 GMT
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In article <41518@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>How about addressing memory using addresses similar to the Dewey decimal
>system?  This numbering system allows you to insert an arbitrary number

Sounds like the "tumbler" numbering system from Ted Nelson's "Xanadu"
hypertext system.  There was a Byte article on this a few years back,
but I can't find the reference right now.

Jeff Lee -- jonah@cs.toronto.edu || utai!jonah