cudat@warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks) (08/04/88)
The following item of news was submitted:- >From: dmr@alice.UUCP >Subject: Re: Basics of Program Design >Message-ID: <8072@alice.UUCP> >Date: 28 Jul 88 04:53:50 GMT ... >(threaded) code. Doubtless the invention of ++ and -- (due to >Thompson) was suggested by the auto-increment cells of the PDP-7, or >perhaps the one such cell on the PDP-8, or perhaps some of the more ... Actually, a PDP-8 with 4K words of fast store had eight autoindex registers, at locations 0010-0017 octal. A PDP-8 with several 4K word banks of fast store had eight autoindex registers in each bank. -- J. M. Hicks (a.k.a. Hilary), Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL On JANET: cudat@UK.AC.WARWICK.CU (in the U.K.) From BITNET: cudat@CU.WARWICK.AC.UK From ARPAnet: try cudat%cu.warwick.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu (untested) On Usenet: ...!ihnp4!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudat It helps if you spell "cudat" in lower case.