Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1990-06-26
1993-03-23
Kriess, Kevin A.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
395800, 364DIG1, 3642624, 3642629, 364263, 364261, 3642611, 3642612, G06F 938
Patent
active
051971356
ABSTRACT:
A digital computer system is described which is capable of processing 2 or more computer instructions in parallel and which has the capability of generating compounding tag information for those instructions, the compounding tag information being associated with instructions for the purpose of indicating groups of instructions which are to be concurrently executed. A compounding tag has a value which indicates the size of the group of instructions which are to be concurrently executed. The computer system includes a hierarchially-arranged memory which provides instructions to a CPU for execution. The instructions are compounded in the memory, and provision is made in the memory for storage of their compounding tags. In the event of modification of an instruction in memory, the invention provides for reduction of the value of the compounding tags for the modified instruction and instructions which are capable of being compounded with the modified instruction or for generation of new tag values for the modified instruction and instructions which are adjacent it in memory.
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Blaner Bartholomew
Eickemeyer Richard J.
Vassiliadis Stamatis
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kriess Kevin A.
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