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It would be interesting to learn a little bit more about what this means. X86 "supports recursion" in the sense that it has a stack and the push, call, ret, sy
by 13of40 7y ago
It would be interesting to learn a little bit more about what this means. X86 "supports recursion" in the sense that it has a stack and the push, call, ret, syscall, etc. instructions make use of it.
- notfashion 7y agoA bit of googling led to this document: https://www.academia.edu/5256838/Rekursiv_an_object-_oriented_cpu https://www.academia.edu/5256838/Rekursiv_an_object-_oriente...
- saagarjha 7y agoUnfortunately that link goes to an error page for me :(
- igouy 7y agoThis seems to work https://www.academia.edu/5256838/ https://www.academia.edu/5256838/
- KineticLensman 7y agoI read the paper, which includes a forward reference to Figure 1 (the system architecture). When I got to the end of the paper, it says that Figure 1 is "TO BE SENT SEPARATELY BY MAIL, TOGETHER WITH A PHOTO OF ONE OF THE CUSTOM CHIPS". Oh well.
- zik 7y agoIt supported recursion in its microcode which is very unusual.
- gjmichalson 7y agocf HLH Orion architecture which was micro-programmed for Prolog, as well as LISP as mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLH_Orion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLH_Orion