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The use of a ‘floating address’ system for orders in an automatic digital computer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. V. Wilkes
M. V. Wilkes
Affiliation:
The Mathematical LaboratoryCambridge
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Extract

This note is concerned with automatic digital computing machines in which orders are expressed in coded numerical form and held in the same store as numbers. It is possible in such machines to modify orders by performing arithmetical operations on them. The storage locations are numbered serially, and their contents can be referred to when necessary by these numbers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , January 1953 , pp. 84 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1953

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