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| Nov 3, 2015 at 21:44 | comment | added | Greg A. Woods | Well, not having executable stack(s) probably helped Multics just as much as intelligent stack direction, and of course with many programs written in PL/1, string overflows were also not really a problem. | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 21:19 | history | answered | Bruce Ediger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |