Re: Languages From Hell -- your favorite one could walk again!

hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker)
Mon, 26 Sep 1994 16:32:55 GMT

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 16:32:55 GMT

ok@cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>But Knuth's MIX _was_ implemented.


Didn't the MIX architecture have a kind of Heisenberg uncertainty
principle? You could determine either the word size _or_ the radix,
but not both at the same time. :-)


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