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Chapter 2 described a simple computer which served to illustrate the principles on which computers are based. but it showed some serious deficiencies. The main two, whose rectification implies changes to the organisation of the computer, are the lack of a facility to use computed addresses and the lack of a facility which enables several partial answers to be immediately accessible.
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© 1983 Derrick Morris
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Morris, D. (1983). The Structure of the PDP11. In: An Introduction to System Programming — Based on the PDP11. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06310-9_3
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