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Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions
From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:33:45 -0500
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> Name the computer that started it all.
> 	WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
> 		- The first IBM PC
> 	CORRECT:
> 		- The DEC PDP-11

You have a dangerous post there with so many
assertions, but I'll only point out
that the pdp-7, not the 11, started it all.
Ed Sitar had one he wasn't using anymore
that originally was connected to the mainframe and
used as a graphics terminal.

You gotta love the operate instruction.