At 11:52 AM 10/23/2011, Frank Peelo wrote:
If I recall corerctly, that Modula-2 value for nil was the address the 8086 jumped to when released from RESET. So jumping through a pointer with value nil would be something you would notice pretty much immediately.
Certainly not. Modula-2 was/is not depending on any CPU specifics, certainly not on anything x86, considering that the first computers Modula-2 ran on were the Xerox Alto and the Lilith, using M-Code, and both not even a remote connection to anything x86. And a lot of non-Wirth Modula-2 implementation ran on Motorola 68k before I can remember to have seen the first x86 implementation (not sure if it was FST or XDS)...
Ralf
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