18 Nov
2003
18 Nov
'03
7:04 p.m.
Sridhar wrote:
Couldn't you make a harvard architecture machine
that can modify its own
code? Like a doohickey that punches a card and inserts it into the deck
on the reader?
If the program space can be read and/or written under program control,
but is not mapped into the normal data address space, it is often
referred to as "modified harvard architecture". It falls somewhere
between the strict Harvard and strict von Neumann architectures.