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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT
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IIRC, the Burroughs 6500 had what they called a "cactus stack" where
branching would occur for new threads.  And there was a Texas Instruments
microprocessor that had no real stack, but rather a set of registers
that could be saved to RAM on a subroutine call.
These preceded DOS.