[rescue] CPU for Ada language?

[Peter Corlett]

Meelis Roos  <mroos at linux.ee> wrote:
> A colleague remebers faintly that some CPU architecture was
> optimized for running Ada programs. Does anyone remember whether
> there have been any such architectures?

They might be thinking of the iAPX 432, a particularly perverse
design:

http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu7.html#Sec7Part1

The whole of "Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present" is great
reading, by the way:

http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu.html

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