From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, PDP-8!
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:35:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1703271432400.13590@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7218A080-D70A-4569-862B-DE23FDFE5857@tfeb.org>
Tim Bradshaw <tfb at tfeb.org> wrote:
>
> This is how subroutines worked on EDSAC. It might go back further than
> this, but it can't go back much further.
I found this rather good survey of early subroutine linkage:
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/subroutines.html
Turing designed a stack-based linkage for the ACE, a few years before
Wheeler invented the EDSAC subroutine linkage.
Tony.
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2017-03-27 0:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-27 0:37 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-27 12:05 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-03-27 13:35 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2017-03-27 21:37 ` Terry Smith
2017-03-27 13:45 ` [TUHS] Subroutine calling conventions - was " Toby Thain
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2018-03-21 21:52 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2018-03-21 21:59 ` George Michaelson
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2017-03-28 22:10 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-03-28 2:38 Noel Chiappa
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2017-03-27 23:30 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-03-27 23:33 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-27 23:49 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-03-27 1:24 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-27 14:07 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-21 23:57 Atindra Chaturvedi
2017-03-21 21:34 Dave Horsfall
2017-03-22 16:34 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-26 19:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-26 20:11 ` Paul Winalski
2017-03-26 22:20 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-03-26 22:25 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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