From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: who invented the link register
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:24:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6848E086-1F60-4476-A228-AB3A158EC8CB@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exY+sG_kb2mMfhJvkbUzGk47U4T0n7Odh=EPxKwN-DSOdHw@mail.gmail.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1277 bytes --]
On Oct 12, 2022, at 12:01 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know branch and link was in the 360; was it earlier? And ... anybody know who invented it?
>
> This came up in a risc-v meeting just now :-) My claim is that if anybody knows, they will be in this group.
Zuse Z4 had instructions to jump to a subprogram and back. Unclear if they were in the original Z4 (1945) or were added later. Or how it was done.
https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/247521-discovery-user-manual-of-the-oldest-surviving-computer-in-the-world/fulltext
Turing's ACE (1946) computer had BURY and UNBURY that push and pop a subroutine's return address from a ptr held in TS31. TS1..TS32 were "temporary storage" registers each in a recirculating memory (mercury delay line?) with a cycle time of 32µs. The paper referenced below says BURY and UNBURY were subroutines but I wonder if they were macros.
From the "Turing and ACE, Lessons from a 1946 Computer Design" <https://cds.cern.ch/record/263304/files/p230.pdf> paper, "Inventing this concept in late 1945 was a truly amazing achievement, perhaps inspired by the recursive function theory which Turing had learnt from the work of Church, and by a slight knowledge of the nineteenth century work of Babbage."
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1652 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-25 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-12 19:01 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2022-10-24 23:46 ` [TUHS] " Angelo Papenhoff
2022-10-25 8:35 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-10-25 17:00 ` Lawrence Stewart
2022-10-25 18:26 ` Clem Cole
2022-10-25 20:05 ` Marc Donner
2022-10-25 21:03 ` Lawrence Stewart
2022-10-26 4:45 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-10-26 5:29 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-10-26 7:52 ` Marc Donner
2022-10-26 11:12 ` Larry Stewart
2022-10-25 22:24 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2022-10-25 22:41 ` Harald Arnesen
2022-10-25 22:47 ` Robert Clausecker
2022-10-25 22:52 Noel Chiappa
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=6848E086-1F60-4476-A228-AB3A158EC8CB@iitbombay.org \
--to=bakul@iitbombay.org \
--cc=rminnich@gmail.com \
--cc=tuhs@tuhs.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).