10 Feb
2010
10 Feb
'10
12:19 p.m.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:28:17 -0700
From: Ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'm not sure you would count it as a CPU, but the TI-55 programmable
calculator lacked any type of jump or branch instruction, IIRC. All
programs were purely linear. So, in addition to having considerably
less memory, it was also limited in this way, as compared to a TI-58 or
TI-59.
Jeff Walther
How about GOTO-less CPUs? Do any exist that
completely lack a jump
instruction of any sort (I'm not counting those where PC is mapped as
a general register)?
You must have a jump instruction for a loop.
Weird programing and computing... different topic.