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Hackers' Paradise: The rise of soft options and the demise of hard choices

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Data descriptors

ICL VME target architecture had hardware "descriptors" to police the memory locations accessed during execution. IIRC that meant that individual data items in a program instance were each given their own range limits. Think of it as hardware enforced type casting.

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