Harvard vs. vonNeuman

[Cameron Kaiser]

> 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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