13 Apr
2006
13 Apr
'06
2:23 p.m.
In article <01C65F0C.7BCFCCA0 at mse-d03>,
M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net> writes:
Carriage movement literally "stepped"
through the "program", and the
location & length of the pins were the machine language (in the truest
sense:) instruc tions. Parallel processing of a sort, since each program
step had multiple instructi ons; i.e. you would read the keyboard,
add & subtract the accumulator and up to 18 registers, and print,
all in one operation.
The first VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture? :-)
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