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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>> I think the first real intentional C machine was Dave Ditzel's
>> CRISP.
> Before SPARC?

Hmm, checking Wikipedia it seems they were contemporaneous.  For some
reason I thought CRISP was earlier.

> One key difference was that you could take the address of a register,
> which made returning more than one value from a call a hack of a lot
> easier.  The other thing was that you could effectively get a new set
> of registers just by pushing the stack.  So calling was super-clean.

Was there a conventional register file on the die, and if yes, did they
have to do a bunch of contortions to shuffle registers to memory etc.?
I'm assuming this worked with the very deep stacks typical of C
programs.