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 non-numeric processor is evolved. © 1980, ACM. All rights reserved.
Publication Date
4-30-1980
Publication Title
ACM SIGIR Forum
Volume
15
Issue
2
Number of Pages
57-61
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1145/1013881.802692
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84976762117 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84976762117
STARS Citation
Mukhopadhyay, Amar, "A Proposal For A Hardware Text Processor" (1980). Scopus Export 1980s. 14.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus1980/14