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Algol Mainframes ?

If that would be true, how could the Algol Mainframes of ICL, Burroughs and IPMCE be useful computers at all ?

How did they manage without heap memory ?

I must concede I do not have first-hand knowledge of Algol, but from what I can read they did have several memory safety features such as index checking and hardware memory typing.

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