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

Socpus ID

85050634171 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85050634171

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