IBM Advanced Computing Systems -- Quote from Livermore Technical Report

Mark Smotherman. December 21, 2016

E.A. Feustel, C.A. Jensen, and F.H. McMahon, "Future Trends in Computer Hardware," Livermore Lab technical report, May 22, 1973. For presentation at the AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference in July 1973.

In the course of this study we have considered other architectures. Two are listed below in approximate order of increasing complexity.

• A multiple processor approach[...]
• A 7600-like machine with more registers, greater memory bandwidth, and the capabilty of issuing more than one instruction per cycle (with finer ability to distinguish bewteen real and apparent conflicts). Bit vector capability should be part of this machine as well. This is not unlike the now-abandoned IBM ACS machine.

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