Title :
The MUSHROOM machine-an architecture for symbolic processing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK
Abstract :
MUSHROOM is aimed at the efficient execution of symbolic processing environments such as Smalltalk-80. The author summarises some aspects of the MUSHROOM architecture and the motivation for its design. Firstly, the problems commonly associated with symbolic processing are described. The issues involved in the MUSHROOM design are discussed and the suitability of the architecture to symbolic processing is outlined
Keywords :
computer architecture; multiprocessing systems; object-oriented programming; symbol manipulation; MUSHROOM machine; Smalltalk-80; symbolic processing; symbolic processing environments;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI and Architectures for Symbolic Processing, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
