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| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...] |
| Date | 2024-08-08 22:24 +0200 |
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2024, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On 2024-08-07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On 07 Aug 2024 15:04:21 GMT, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>>
>>> A CS professor I know told me this last week:
>>>
>>> I'm one of the very few that teach Systems. It amazes me that our
>>> PhD students almost all in AI have never heard of a program
>>> counter.
>>
>> “Program counter” ... is that a von Neumann thing?
>
> It's the thing that holds the address of the current instruction being
> executed.
>
> Effectively, CPU's operate like this loop here
>
> int pc=0;
> while (1) {
> execute_instruction (pc);
> pc++;
> }
>
> After that, 'execute_instruction' can be thought of as a big conditional
> statement that actually performs the task -- moving data between CPU
> registers, reading from RAM, whatever.
>
>
Could it have been called instruction counter on some platforms? My memory
is very hazy but I vaguely remember a register you could manipulate
directly from my assembler labs and the long gone days when I thought
computer viruses were interesting.
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