Affiliation:
1. ESD Associates, Monmouth, OR
Abstract
Can the looping, branching, sequencing, and modularity of structured programming be implemented effectively by single instructions at the machine-instruction level? A proposal for a class of machines to do so is presented. Flow control verbs such as REPEAT and IF/THEN/ELSE are represented in large-format instructions containing pointers to conditional controls and other instructions. An active-instruction stack is used to nest flow structures. Independent buses for logically distinct memory spaces enhance performance.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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