[TUHS] pdp11 UNIX memory allocation

[John Cowan]

Johnny Billquist scripsit:

> The versions of Unix I am aware of push arguments on the stack. 

Yes.  It was typical for HLLs not to use JSR Rn instructions (which you
need if you are going to pull arguments out of the instruction stream)
but rather JSR PC instructions.

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