Stephen Kellett wrote:
> Itanium, bluergh! I ****ted a huge Win32 CAD application to Win64 on
> Itanium. Where is the stack? Er, its hidden. Where? Can't tell you.
I know this is off-topic ;-) but how is garbage collection or any (other)
form
of introspection on the stack, performed on such machines ?
To get back to the matter at hand, I could mention that I started out
programming with a paper tape reader and teletype, then progressed to
punched
cards. It's true but misleading -- I only wrote 1.5* tiny programs then,
and
didn't really start programming seriously until several years later on a
PDP/11, and some sort of Zilog box, with vi (et al) routinely available.
I
guess I was spoilt.
-- chris
[*] Either 1 or 2 depending on whether you count programs *written* or
programs
*run*. I still sometimes wonder whether that first program would have
worked...
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