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The architecture of an ALGOL 60 computer implemented with distributed processors

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Leonard S. HaynesAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Volume 5, Issue 7

Pages 95 - 104

https://doi.org/10.1145/633615.810658

Published: 01 March 1977 Publication History

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In conventional computer systems, the computer hardware does not actually execute the user's source program. Instead, a software compiler and link editor transform the program into low level machine code which is executed by the hardware.

This mapping from a high-level language to a von Neumann instruction set is

a. Computationally costly because compilers and link editors are big and slow.

b. Inefficient because the object code is generally poor.

c. Error prone because compilers and link editors are difficult to design, debug, and maintain.

Furthermore, diagnostic messages for execution errors (an arithmetic overflow for example) are either cryptic and require the user to be familiar with the machine language (i.e., a dump), or the object code generated must require considerable run time overhead to permit run time errors to refer back to the users source program (i.e., pointers and tables, etc.).

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The architecture of an ALGOL 60 computer implemented with distributed processors
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News Volume 5, Issue 7

March 1977

210 pages

ISSN:0163-5964

DOI:10.1145/633615

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ISCA '77: Proceedings of the 4th annual symposium on Computer architecture
March 1977
210 pages
ISBN:9781450379113
DOI:10.1145/800255
Chairmen:
Harold S. Stone,
Bruce Wald,
Y. S. Wu

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