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Oberon was already a later software. Earlier Wirth designed a personal workstation called Lilith with a stack-architecture CPU and Modula-2 as its system progr
by lispm 9y ago
Oberon was already a later software.
Earlier Wirth designed a personal workstation called Lilith with a stack-architecture CPU and Modula-2 as its system programming language. This was in many ways similar to Smalltalk or Lisp Machines, but with reduced complexity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer)
- vram22 9y agoInteresting. I do seem to remember that there was a BYTE magazine article about the Lilith computer too (or maybe I read about it somewhere else, it was a while ago). Also remember some issue(s) of BYTE that had articles about stack machines, which were a bit of a rage at one time, I think. I had read a bit about some of the pros and cons at the time. Also seem to remember that the JVM implements a stack machine. Edit: Looked it up - the JVM does seem to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine#Commercial_stack_machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine#Commercial_stack...