« Half measures | Main | Place your bets »
Stack attack
‘I was horrified,’ begins Kevin Campbell at EDS. Horrified: Why? ‘…to read the suggestion that there is no such thing as a FIFO stack.’
Frankly we are a bit more easygoing about this technical debate, which must be in the top five most obscure that we have ever had. And that is saying something.
However, Kevin points us towards US Patent 4062059, granted to Seigo Suzuki and Yoshiaki Moriya: ‘In an information processing system comprising a central processing unit, an input/output unit and a first-in first-out stack connected between these units there is a buffer control circuit provided for detecting the full and empty states of the first-in first-out stack…’
Well that, we conclude, puts the tin hat on it. Unless you know different.
Post a comment