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Subject: Re: Stack Growth Direction
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Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 22:24:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  9 22:24:37 1987
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Jim Gilbert writes:

>Although stacks do grow down on:
[Long list of Machines]

>they do grow up on some machines
[much shorter list of machines]

>and some machines do not include any particular support for 
>either direction

>	IBM S/360

"Of course, some people go both ways"

Sperry (nee Univac) 1100 series (and other sperry-oids)

This makes the people who want to put the stack at one end of the D-bank and
the heap at the other REAL happy.

C. Wingate