29 Feb
2000
29 Feb
'00
8:39 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Shawn T. Rutledge once stated:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:40:31PM -0500, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
Each memory cell has a tag associated with it telling how to interpret the
contents---this cell has an integer, this one is a pointer to a string, this
one a floating point number, this is a pointer to a cons cell.
Tagged memory in other words.
-spc (The Intel 432 was a tagged architecture---meant for OOP programming
but it never caught on ... )
"The power, speed, and flexibility of
Symbolics processing machines result
from optimizing the hardware design to match the software environment.
Some of the special architecture features include:
Tagged architecture
Not sure what that is?