The hardware-implemented high-level machine language for SYMBOL

  • Authors:
  • Gilman D. Chesley;William R. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, Palo Alto, California;Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, Palo Alto, California

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '71 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 18-20, 1971, spring joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1971

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Through the years since the specification and development of the first computer systems, machine instruction sets have undergone the least modification of any aspect of these systems. A process of evolutionary growth through accretion of new components has taken place in contrast to the revolution in the programming and systems areas. One can point to stack commands, indexing, and microprogramming, all developed several years ago, and then the list of new concepts in instructions runs out. Similarly, the number of papers in the literature relating to the hardware implementation of programming languages is sparse. This seems anomalous considering that reductions in the cost of logic associated with the development of integrated circuits allow the possibility of implementing much more complex functions in hardware than with past design practices.