stack-oriented computer
nounA stack-oriented computer is a computer that does its math by putting numbers on a stack and taking them off again.
The engineer explained that a stack-oriented computer uses a last-in, first-out stack to evaluate expressions.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A computer whose instruction set is designed around an operand stack rather than general-purpose registers.
Early stack-oriented computers inspired the design of the Java virtual machine.
3. A computing system that evaluates programs by pushing and popping values on a stack.
Students simulated a stack-oriented computer to understand how arithmetic expressions are evaluated.
4. A hardware or virtual machine architecture in which most operations act on the top elements of a stack.
The Forth language is closely tied to stack-oriented computers.