27 Mar
2017
27 Mar
'17
11:37 p.m.
We had a PDP 8E and an 8I at Humber College back in the day. I used to
play chess against Chekmo2 on it on paper tape.
On 2017-03-27 08:05 AM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
On 27 Mar 2017, at 01:31, Noel Chiappa
<jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
That style of subroutine call goes back a _long_ way. IIRC, Whirlwind used
that kind of linkage (alas, I've misplaced my copy of the Whirlwind
instruction manual, sigh - a real tresure).
This is how subroutines worked on
EDSAC. It might go back further than this, but it can't go back much further..