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Use of saguaro stack for multitasking

The first documented use of a saguaro stack that I'm aware of was on the Burroughs B6500^[1]^[2], where the stacks for various tasks in a program formed a tree structure, with links to stack frames on the parent stacks for nested blocks.

References

^ Organick, Elliot I. (1973). Computer System Organization The B5700/B6700 series (despite the title, the book does not cover the B5x00.) (PDF). Academic Press. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |separator= ignored (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
^ Burroughs (September 1969). Burroughs B6500 Information Processing System Reference Manual (PDF). 1043676. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |separator= ignored (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Organick, Elliot I. (1973). Computer System Organization The B5700/B6700 series (despite the title, the book does not cover the B5x00.) (PDF). Academic Press. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |separator= ignored (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

[2] Burroughs (September 1969). Burroughs B6500 Information Processing System Reference Manual (PDF). 1043676. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |separator= ignored (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

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