A Design Philosophy for Microcomputer Architectures

1 February 1977

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Computer

Vol. 10 (2), 35-41
https://doi.org/10.1109/c-m.1977.217645

Abstract

Microcomputers, as a class of programmable machines, are rather uncomfortable and difficult to program, and are even more unpleasant as the target machines for programming languages. This need not be so.

Keywords

MICROCOMPUTERS
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
PROGRAMMING PROFESSION
COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION
APPLICATION SOFTWARE
MICROPROCESSORS
LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION
COMPUTER DISPLAYS
COMPUTER LANGUAGES

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