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Re: Accumulator naming

From John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups alt.sys.pdp10
Subject Re: Accumulator naming
Date 2026-07-31 03:36 +0000
Organization Taughannock Networks
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According to Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net>:
>>It was and is a pushdown stack. ...

>My question was whether the former convention was common at the
>time, and if so, when did it change?

It was close to 60 years ago but my recollection is that we used
the term pushdown, viz. the instructions PUSH and POP and PUSHJ and POPJ.

I couldn't tell you when people switched to stack, but I'd expect it
was different groups at different times.

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Fizz Buzz jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-23 17:39 -0400
  Re: Fizz Buzz Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-23 23:19 -0400
    Re: Fizz Buzz jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-25 12:00 -0400
      Re: Fizz Buzz Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-25 18:05 -0400
        Re: Fizz Buzz jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-26 11:12 -0400
      Accumulator naming Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-29 18:10 -0400
        Re: Accumulator naming scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-07-30 15:14 +0000
          Re: old architectures, was Accumulator naming John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-07-30 20:40 +0000
          Re: Accumulator naming Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-30 18:41 -0400
        Re: Accumulator naming jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-30 11:24 -0400
          Re: Accumulator naming scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-07-30 16:03 +0000
          Re: Accumulator naming Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-30 18:56 -0400
            Re: Accumulator naming cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-07-30 23:48 +0000
              Re: Accumulator naming John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-07-31 01:31 +0000
                Re: Accumulator naming cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-07-31 02:52 +0000
                Re: Accumulator naming John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-07-31 03:36 +0000
                Re: Accumulator naming Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-07-31 13:40 +0000
          Re: Accumulator naming Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-07-31 13:35 +0000
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              Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-14 14:40 -0300
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