From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix quix
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:00:10 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2001301457490.15513@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200122184244.14CBB18C083@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Noel Chiappa wrote:
[ Whirlwind ]
> Pretty interesting machine, if you study its instruction set, BTW; with
> no stack, subroutines are 'interesting'.
Not much worse than the PDP-8 :-) Plant return address in first word and
jump to the second word; to return, do an indirect jump to the first word.
Recursion was possible. but I think you had to emulate the stack.
-- Dave
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2020-01-22 18:42 Noel Chiappa
2020-01-24 18:57 ` Paul Winalski
2020-01-30 4:00 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2020-01-30 6:32 ` Angelo Papenhoff
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2020-01-24 19:38 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-01-24 20:05 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-22 20:49 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-22 23:06 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-23 15:56 ` Leah Neukirchen
2020-01-24 2:44 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-24 14:49 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-24 16:34 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-26 0:03 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-24 16:40 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-20 20:28 Rob Pike
2020-01-20 21:06 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-22 9:31 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-22 14:57 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-22 17:54 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 18:01 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2020-01-22 18:21 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 19:42 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 20:42 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 23:10 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-22 23:34 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 23:42 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 19:00 ` Warner Losh
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