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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 1979
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1976
David P Misunas, Brighton, MA (US);
Jack B Dennis, Belmont, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A digital computer may be structured in two separate sections, one of which performs the execution of arithmetic and conditional instructions, and the other which contains and performs operations upon data structures. The organization of the structure processing section of a digital computer is described herein. The structure processing section maintains data structures represented as acyclic directed graphs and is viewed as a functional unit by the instruction processing section; that is, instructions specifying structure operations are sent to the section, and any resulting values are returned to the instruction processing section. The organization of the structure processing section permits the simultaneous processing of many structure operations.