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Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)
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Date: 
Thu, 13 May 1999 15:42:51 GMT
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Ben Laurie <ben@algroup!AntiSpam!.co.uk>
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Rich Clemens wrote:

since CPUs are, in fact, iterative?

How so?

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.

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  Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)
 
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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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