The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2

Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by AnimalMuppet on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:01PM (#31124445)

> Can you imagine if you had a bizarre feature where the next line of code after a branch still executed even if the branch was taken?

I seem to recall that there was a mainframe back in the 1970s that actually did that. Univac 1108 or 1100, maybe? Maybe only in some particular mode?

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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by notacoward on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:26PM (#31129993)

I once worked on the MC88K which had this behavior at the instruction level, and I think other contemporary RISC processors did as well. Never saw it in a higher-level language, though. Maybe some variant of SNOBOL (which already had success/failure branches for every line)?

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