Title
A Proposal For A Hardware Text Processor
Abstract
Because of the tremendous growth in the terminal- oriented users community, software text editor is increasingly becoming a significant overhead for the computing systems. The files being manipulated by text editors are usually small but undergo rapid growth and development in its short-lived life-cycle. A look into the basic command structure of these text editors reveal that the operations performed by them fundamentally consist of pattern matching, pattern transformation, pattern deletion and insertion, and management of a set of counters and pointers. It is proposed in this paper that a specialized front-end processor with built-in string processing hardware provide a natural solution to the problem. This paper presents a possible architecture and logical capabilities of such a machine as an embellishment of microprocessors to be used for intelligent terminals. In the process, the structure of a general purpose nonnumeric processor is evolved.
Publication Date
3-11-1980
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computer Architecture for Non-Numeric Processing, CAW 1980
Number of Pages
57-61
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1145/800083.802692
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
85050634171 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85050634171
STARS Citation
Mukhopadhyay, Amar and Schou, Andrew J., "A Proposal For A Hardware Text Processor" (1980). Scopus Export 1980s. 13.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus1980/13