Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...]

On 2024-08-07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On 07 Aug 2024 15:04:21 GMT, Aharon Robbins wrote:
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A CS professor I know told me this last week:
 
      I'm one of the very few that teach Systems. It amazes me that
      our PhD students almost all in AI have never heard of a program
      counter.

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“Program counter” ... is that a von Neumann thing?

 
It's the thing that holds the address of the current instruction being
executed.