Re:Ask HN: Why did stack-based CPUs lose out?
by Taniwha on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:39AM
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The Burroughs mainframes stored most of their stacks in main memory - they have a couple of deep stack addressing modes (and a proper set of display registers).
Alternately 29Ks and Sparcs have register windows which are essentially top of stack caches.
I think that the RTXs were a thing at a particular point of time that made sense before caches moved on-chip, they didn't catch because they expected you to buy into the forth world-view (rather than providing C and other languages of the day)
Alternately 29Ks and Sparcs have register windows which are essentially top of stack caches.
I think that the RTXs were a thing at a particular point of time that made sense before caches moved on-chip, they didn't catch because they expected you to buy into the forth world-view (rather than providing C and other languages of the day)