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From: Bob Halpern <wumpus@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 1996/09/24
Date: 1996-09-24T06:35:50-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3247E388.243A@ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 525m1s$jvh@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au


Robin Vowels wrote:
 
>         >|> Where did the concept of exception handling originate ? For example,
>         >|> which languages were first to support this, or which papers first
>         >|> proposed exception handling ?
> 
> The IBM System 360 (c. 1965) had an interrupt system that could
> trap a range of computational conditions (division by

There was hardware and software for exception handling that predated the
360.

The 7740 communications processor had several levels of interrupt
(exactly like
a PSW), had vectors to tell the software what happened (exactly like a
CSW),
additional PSWs for low storage, errors, etc.




  reply	other threads:[~1996-09-24  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-09-12  0:00 Exception Handling Robbie Gates
1996-09-12  0:00 ` Bryce
1996-09-12  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-13  0:00     ` Robbie Gates
1996-09-14  0:00       ` Paul A. Houle
1996-09-18  0:00         ` Rick Decker
1996-09-12  0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1996-09-12  0:00   ` Rick Decker
1996-09-13  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-13  0:00 ` Felix Kasza
1996-09-13  0:00   ` David B. Shapcott [C]
1996-09-18  0:00     ` Bart Termorshuizen
1996-09-16  0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-23  0:00   ` Robin Vowels
1996-09-24  0:00     ` Bob Halpern [this message]
1996-10-02  0:00       ` Fritz Schneider
1996-10-07  0:00         ` Robin Vowels
1996-10-09  0:00         ` shmuel
1996-10-09  0:00           ` Bob Halpern
1996-10-11  0:00           ` Exception Handling - Test Please Ignore jekis
1996-09-26  0:00     ` Exception Handling Thiago
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-05-29  0:00 NANCY HEHIR
2000-05-29  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-05-30  0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-05-30  0:00   ` Gautier
2000-06-05  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-06-01  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-01  0:00     ` Ehud Lamm
2000-06-01  0:00     ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-06-02  0:00       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-06-02  0:00         ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-06-01  0:00     ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-01  0:00     ` Jeff Carter
2000-06-02  0:00       ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-02  0:00       ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-05-30  0:00 ` Antonio Dur�n Dom�nguez
2000-05-30  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-28  0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-17  0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-19  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-17  0:00 John Goodenough
1996-09-13  0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-15  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-23  0:00 ` Robin Vowels
1986-05-13 22:57 exception handling MIXSIM
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