On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:46:18 -0400, John W Kennedy wrote: > Martijn Lievaart wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:33:30 -0400, John W Kennedy wrote: >> >>> Actually, I was thinking of the 1401. But both the 1620 and the 1401 >>> (without the optional Advanced Programming Feature) share the basic >>> omission of any instruction that could do call-and-return without >>> hard-coding an adcon with the address of the point to be returned to. >>> (The Advanced Programming Feature added a 1401 instruction, Store >>> B-address Register, that, executed as the first instruction of a >>> subroutine, could store the return-to address.) >> >> Raaaagh!!!! >> >> Don't. Bring. Back. Those. Nightmares. Please. >> >> The 1401 was a decent enough processor for many industrial tasks -- at >> that time -- but for general programming it was sheer horror. > > But the easiest machine language /ever/.
What? Even easier than ICL 1900 PLAN or MC68000 assembler? That would be difficult to achieve. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
