PDP-8 had auto-increment locations down in low memory in similar style.
I suppose the device addressing through memory on lots of machines counts as
magic too,
L.
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On 22 May 2011, at 06:39, Thomas Green green...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Kevlin Henney wrote:
To really
Blimey, are we top-posting or bottom-posting in this discussion? Anyway...
The original question was about whether there were studies on
the effect of 'magic' features, but we seem to have devolved into
a show-and-tell of them instead.
I wonder whether one person's 'magic' is another person's
