Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Purgert Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...] Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 01:14:18 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <66b38cf5$0$706$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:14:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3f2b4b7f25be57fcc2978e402923423a"; logging-data="404740"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Zp8zS4V18pvu+T3niYM1craCnuPjtMLU=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aesZMnxoSH45NDn6ezbUNDOeB2Q= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:25442 On 2024-08-08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 09:33:10 -0000 (UTC), 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. > > Like I said, it’s a von Neumann thing. Pretty sure my AVR Microcontrollers are Harvard Architecture, and they certainly use a program counter... -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860