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SPM(ID:8504/)

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Country: United Kingdom
Designed 1972

for Symbol Processing Machine

Machine dedicated to the manipulation of symbols, and provide a special purpose assembler for symbol description. Inspired in part by IPL and COMIT as welll as other string manipulation systems (SNOBOL, LISP etc)

Provided machine level manipulation of cells, simulation written in PLAN on a 1900
References:
  • Beaven and Lewin (1972) Beaven, PA and Lewin, DW "An associative parallel processing system for non-numerical computation" Abstract Extract: Introduction Extract: Current techniques of information processing Extract: Verification of systems ideas Extract: Comparison of the SPM with other unconventional computer Extract: The cell level instruction set
          in The Computer Journal (1972) The Computer Journal 15(4) 1972
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