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From: Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: who invented the link register
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:35:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1ef1KWMgmX/NXZh@indra.papnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1cj48eAYbZSFZNx@indra.papnet.eu>

On 25/10/22, Angelo Papenhoff wrote:
> Might be earlier than this, I just happen to know the Whirlwind somewhat
> well. It's late 40s machine, so you probably won't find anything *much*
> older.

Addendum: the original report from 1947 does not describe this behaviour
yet. The change came in oct. 1948. M-668 mentions it and refers to M-647,
which however is not available online.
So the concept of saving the resturn address in another register is at
least as old as oct. 1948, but again I wouldn't be surprised if some
even slightly earlier computer had it too.

aap

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-25  8:35 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 [this message]
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
2022-10-25 22:41   ` Harald Arnesen
2022-10-25 22:47   ` Robert Clausecker
2022-10-25 22:52 Noel Chiappa

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