From: Harald Arnesen <skogtun@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: who invented the link register
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:41:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eae1d7b2-3ca6-51d5-ed5d-3d5eb2a82412@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6848E086-1F60-4476-A228-AB3A158EC8CB@iitbombay.org>
Bakul Shah [26/10/2022 00.24]:
> 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.
Or a gin and tonic delay line, as he (jokingly) suggested as an alternative.
--
Hilsen Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-25 22:42 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
2022-10-25 22:41 ` Harald Arnesen [this message]
2022-10-25 22:47 ` Robert Clausecker
2022-10-25 22:52 Noel Chiappa
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