Digital computer system having unique means of referring to operands and ability to execute a plurality of internal languages
US4517642A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 22, 1981 |
| Grant date | May 14, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 22, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F7/49926
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A digital computer system in which data operands are represented by names. Each procedure includes a name table, and means are provided to employ the name table to resolve the names into storage addresses at run time. The system also has the ability to run any of a plurality of S-Languages (an S-Language being conceptually similar to a machine language but of higher order); each S-Language can be optimally tailored to a high-order user language. Each procedure includes a dialect code which indicates the dialect of S-Language to which the instructions in the current procedure belong, and the system has provision to execute each procedure accordingly.
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