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On 19/11/2019, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2019-Nov-18 10:45:13 -0800, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
>>Are you guys talking about “A formal description of System/360” by
>>Falkoff, Iverson and Sussenguth? It uses an APL like notation but not
>>exactly a S/360 emulator in APL! Much more concise than the S/360 POP.
>>
>>http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/class.files.cs2321.html/falkoff.pdf
>
> I was referring to exactly that but didn't have the reference handy.
> Note that it's not "an APL like notation", it's the APL defined by Ken
> Iverson in "A Programming Language"[1].  And, no-one said it was an
> "emulator".
>
> [1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Books/APROGRAMMING%20LANGUAGE
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy

Blaauw and Brooks documented an enormous number of architectures that
way: https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Blaauw-Computer-Architecture-Concepts-and-Evolution/PGM629.html

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