The Importance of Terminology's Quality

[Martijn Lievaart]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:33:30 -0400, John W Kennedy wrote:

> Actually, I was thinking of the 1401. But both the 1620 and the 1401
> (without the optional Advanced Programming Feature) share the basic
> omission of any instruction that could do call-and-return without
> hard-coding an adcon with the address of the point to be returned to.
> (The Advanced Programming Feature added a 1401 instruction, Store
> B-address Register, that, executed as the first instruction of a
> subroutine, could store the return-to address.)

Raaaagh!!!!

Don't. Bring. Back. Those. Nightmares. Please.

The 1401 was a decent enough processor for many industrial tasks -- at 
that time -- but for general programming it was sheer horror.

M4