Very interesting stuff. Seems they would be a very powerful machines, these stack thingies.
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1 posted on
08/10/2006 3:19:47 PM PDT by
TChris
To: TChris
New stack computing??? I'm just getting used to RPN!
2 posted on
08/10/2006 3:23:08 PM PDT by
llevrok
(When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
To: TChris
>Eric LaForest delivers a crash-course on modern stack computing
Very cool thread! Thanks!
My favorite thread of the week.
Have an Anna pic!

To: TChris
It's an interesting concept. I remember mainframes that had registers and no stack. But I think we'll continue to use architectures with both features for the foreseeable future. Stacks frames are great for passing arguments and containing local variables in structured programs, but good usage of registers can make a program fly.
11 posted on
08/10/2006 3:53:44 PM PDT by
HAL9000
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion
I loved foolin' with the stack on the good old Apple II.
12 posted on
08/10/2006 7:58:44 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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