27 Mar
2017
27 Mar
'17
7:35 p.m.
Tim Bradshaw <tfb(a)tfeb.org> wrote:
This is how subroutines worked on EDSAC. It might go back further than
this, but it can't go back much further.
I found this rather good survey of early subroutine linkage:
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/subroutines.html
Turing designed a stack-based linkage for the ACE, a few years before
Wheeler invented the EDSAC subroutine linkage.
Tony.
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