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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Self Modifying Code
Message-ID: <1988Jul21.202701.20099@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5254@june.cs.washington.edu> <76700032@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <361@scolex> <835@l.cc.purdue.edu> <7362@ico.ISC.COM> <2317@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 88 20:27:01 GMT

In article <2317@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>The idea of storing a return address into the front word of a subroutine
>was widespread. It would be nice to think that this rank stupidity died out
>long ago, but in fact the HP 2100 series worked that way. (I believe it
>went off the market in the 1980's.)

I wouldn't be surprised if DEC is still making PDP-8s, which did things
that way.
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