From: Bob Halpern <wumpus@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 1996/10/09
Date: 1996-10-09T18:26:09-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <325C3462.1323@ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53f0vh$ar2@news1.mnsinc.com
shmuel@os2bbs.com wrote:
>
> In <32529a13.6465307@nntp.netgate.net>, Fritz@Peacham.com (Fritz Schneider) writes:
> >Bob Halpern <wumpus@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> >The IBM 709 (a vacuum tube machine) introduced the concept of data
> >channels (now called DMA) in a commercial product ca. 1957.
>
> Sorry, but the data-channel trap feature of the 709 was not the first either.
> The earliest reference that I've seen to interrupts was on the 1103A, but I
> wouldn't put any money on it being first.
The SWAC had branching on overflow, negative, in the instruction. It
was built in the mid 50s, before the 709x, before the 650, before the
1103A (fine machine - shame Univac didn't realize it).
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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 ` Patrick Doyle
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Rick Decker
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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
1996-09-13 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
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 [this message]
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 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-30 0:00 ` Antonio Dur�n Dom�nguez
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 ` Jeff Carter
2000-06-02 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-06-02 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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 ` Ehud Lamm
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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