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| | | (...) And, BTW, isn't this intuitively obvious, since CPUs are, in fact, iterative? Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.) —Rich Clemens
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| | | | (...) How so? -- Richard Clemens Associate Professor Computer Science Department West Virginia Wesleyan College Buckhannon, West Virginia 26201 clemens@wvwc.edu 304.473.8421 ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> To: John (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.) —Ben Laurie
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| | | | (...) What do you mean? The algorithm a CPU uses (at least, any I'm familiar with) to execute code is an iterative algorithm (i.e. fetch instructions, decode, execute, go round again). Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.) —Rich Clemens
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| | | | Is that a function of the CPU or the OS? -- Richard Clemens Associate Professor Computer Science Department West Virginia Wesleyan College Buckhannon, West Virginia 26201 clemens@wvwc.edu 304.473.8421 ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Laurie (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.) —Ben Laurie
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| | | | (...) Is this a windup? The CPU, of course! (...) ^^^...^^^ of what? (...) Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.) —Rich Clemens
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| | | | If the CPU then the hardware (datapath) or the microcode? -- Richard Clemens Associate Professor Computer Science Department West Virginia Wesleyan College Buckhannon, West Virginia 26201 clemens@wvwc.edu 304.473.8421 ----- Original Message ----- (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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