Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!sco!seanf
From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Content Addressible Memories
Message-ID: <1929@scolex>
Date: 15 Dec 88 19:24:04 GMT
References: <12371@srcsip.UUCP> <367@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM> <6694@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <367@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM>, lpelleti@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM (Larry Pelletier) writes:
>There was never a "popular" programming paradigm that could really take
>advantage of content addressible memories.  Although some things could be
>done, it really didn't help the concepts of data and code in languages such
>as Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, or C.

I think that CAM would help AWK in many circumstances (accessing any member
of an array would help *alot*), but I haven't actually sat down and done any
work on it.

Has anybody?

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