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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
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Subject: Pointers (Was: virtual Pascal machines)
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Date: 20 Jul 88 03:22:55 GMT
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>   From: djones@megatest.uucp (Dave Jones)
>   I am tempted to boot the whole idea, and just say there is one
>   kind of pointer: a thirty-two bit word.  And we will burn all
>   the the computers that don't behave that way.

Well....  The Caltech Object Machine (still building, last I heard)
is a tagged architecture with 16-bit tags.  At least a few tags are
taken for hardware-defined types.  The machine probably WONT RUN if
you don't generate at least a few unique pointer types.

	;-D on  ( Play a game of tag, anyone? )  Pardo
[From pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)]
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