From: dot@dotat.at   
      
   Jan Vorbruggen  wrote:   
   >> Did you have a look at the i80x87 FPU instruction set? Or at the Java   
   >> VM, or at FORTH?   
   >   
   >In my biased opinion, the prototypical non-ancient stack-based ISA is   
   >that of the transputer.   
      
   The transputer is unusual in that its stack has only three entries. It   
   was designed to be enough to compile a typical high-level language   
   statement, but local variables live off the stack in the   
   workspace. This means the CPU has very little per-process state so   
   context switching can be very fast.   
      
   Tony.   
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