Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704? (lemmy.one)

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How did they implement allocate a new cons cell?

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[-] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Malloc is a C function and wouldn't come around for another 15 years or so. They likely wrote memory allocation code directly in machine code/assembly which could and would just access raw memory directly.

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