[TUHS] Unix quix

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Jan 30 14:00:10 AEST 2020


On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Noel Chiappa wrote:

[ Whirlwind ]

> Pretty interesting machine, if you study its instruction set, BTW; with 
> no stack, subroutines are 'interesting'.

Not much worse than the PDP-8 :-)  Plant return address in first word and 
jump to the second word; to return, do an indirect jump to the first word.

Recursion was possible. but I think you had to emulate the stack.

-- Dave


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