Language directed computer design

  • Authors:
  • W. M. McKeeman

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, California

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '67 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 14-16, 1967, fall joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

It is an accident that digital computers are organized like desk calculators--with somewhat worse luck we might have taken the Turing machine as our model. And someone would have been unenlightened enough to prove that, under certain (actually untrue) assumptions, it made no difference. All general purpose machines can compute the same functions, given sufficient time.