From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steve@quintile.net (Steve Simon) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:59:32 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Harvard and Von Neumann Architectures and Unix In-Reply-To: <20171125142424.3518A18C0D9@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: > Interesting case. I'm not familiar with BitBLT codes, do they actually modify > the existing program, or rather do they build small custom ones? Only the > former is what I was thinking of. It is a typical of designs by Rob Pike, a thing of great elegance. See here: https://9p.io/cm/cs/doc/87/archtr.ps.gz -Steve