The Telefunken machines I mentioned in the other post also were designed with ALGOL in mind. Someone once called the TR4 a hardware representation of ALGOL. I wouldn't go this far, but indeed there are lots of machine instructions inspired by ALGOL logic (and ALGOL compiler's needs).
I have a short reference of the TR4 instruction set, from 1967. There is also one model shown at Deutsches Museum in Munich, and in the library, they have many Telefunken system handbooks from the Leibniz Rechenzentrum at the university of Munich. I was there some weeks ago to take a look at these books (ca. 300). I recently learned that Edsger W. Dijkstra (I hope I got the name rihgt) knew the TR4 - there was at least one model sold to a university in the Netherlands - and that he was very impressed of it. See private correspondence of Dijkstra, there is a web page which includes all his letters, articles and so on. In its time (from 1962 on), the TR4 was for some years the fastest computer built in Europe. Kind regards Bernd Am Montag, 11. September 2006 21:36 schrieben Sie: > > BTW, this memory comes from college in the late 60's - an ALGOL class. > We never learned aythig about string-mode processing (which was most > likely not accessable from ALGOL) so I never learned any details about > it. Seeing stack-oriented the maching language coming out of the ALGOL > compiler was pretty interesting. Even back then, before I had much of > a paradigm to shift, I could tesll this as unusual. > > Pat O'Keefe > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
