Re: 'Stuck' on one address?

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From: p... Per Lindberg
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 17:36

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In article <1990Jan2.1...@gdt.bath.ac.uk> exs...@gdr.bath.ac.uk
           (P E Smee) writes:
>The 'program that stumbled' chain reminds me of the PDP-9...
>The PDP-9 allowed multiple-level address indirection...
>This could be done with no designed in limit...
>Problem was, the PDP-9 was uninterruptible, even by the STOP switch,
>while it was performing address resolution.

Wasn't this also a problem with the first PDP-10 processors? 
I've head that DEC fixed it rather quickly, though.
(For obvious reasons...)

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