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A General Purpose Array with a Broad Spectrum of Applications

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We consider in this paper a new architecture which should achieve a better performance over a wide spectrum of diverse applications than contemporary general purpose computers of the Princeton type. In particular we include applications to information processing and list processing.

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Händler, W., Hofmann, F., Schneider, H.J. (1976). A General Purpose Array with a Broad Spectrum of Applications. In: Händler, W., Bell, R.K. (eds) Computer Architecture. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66400-7_13

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