Harvard vs. vonNeuman

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Tue Sep 28 21:23:06 2004

> I month or so ago I prattled on about what I recalled about the BTI
> Computer Systems architecture, where I worked for a year back in 85/86.
>
> That machine had an instruction to execute an instruction that was held
> in a register! Kind of like the perl exec() function, for one
> instruction. I imagine it could have been useful for single stepping
> and other debugging operations.

ITYM "eval"

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