The case against stack-oriented instruction sets

1 August 1977

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News

Vol. 6 (3) , 7-10
https://doi.org/10.1145/859402.859403

Abstract

Stack-oriented (reverse-Polish-oriented) instruction sets have been claimed to be superior to register-oriented instruction sets. This paper refutes this claim and also shows that a third form is more desirable.

Keywords

REFUTES
REVERSE
SUPERIOR
POLISH
STACK ORIENTED
ORIENTED INSTRUCTION
INSTRUCTION SETS STACK

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