Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

[Bill Freeman]

>   >> CAR and CDR refer to a register in the IBM 704.
> 
> Specifically, contents of the A register, contents of the D register.
> IBM hardware of that vintage were single accumulator machines.  The
> A register was the accumulator; D was an extension register for
> double length products and dividends.  Useless trivia, of course, but
> immortalized forever by Johm McCarthy.

Ever notice the similarity with AX, DX on the 80X86 with respect to
multiply and divide?


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