It can be interrupted, but restarts from the beginning. A sufficiently long indirect chain will never finish with interrupts happening.
On Mar 15, 2018, at 9:33 PM, Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net> wrote:
If I recall correctly, the PDP-10 had a similar situation with indirect memory references. Pointers had an "indirect" bit, and if set, the indirection would continue for as long as the pointer chain had the indirect bit set.
Does anyone recall the details of how this worked? I assume the sequence could be interrupted and later resumed?
Tom
Bernie Cosell writes:
On 15 Mar 2018 at 17:13, Henry Baker wrote:
... On the PDP-1 (I know, more comments from the stone age) it did "infinite" levels of indirect, But: ...
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