From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, July 18, 2021 at 9:50:33 AM UTC+10, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > > The Burroughs machine architecture doesnt fit in the C hypothetical   
   > > machine. It doesnt have registers. It has a stack architecture.   
      
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine   
      
   I forgot to quote this bit:   
      
   "Register machines routinely outperform stack machines".   
      
   So there was an understandable pressure to move   
   from CISC to RISC, but not to abstract to a machine   
   programmed in Turtle Graphics or equivalent.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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