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From: lpelleti@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM (Larry Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Content Addressible Memories
Message-ID: <367@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 88 02:20:57 GMT
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In article <12371@srcsip.UUCP>, shankar@src.honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth) writes:
> 
> It seems that content addressible memories, although present an
> awful lot in the literature over the years, have never really taken off.
> Any comments on why?

There was never a "popular" programming paradigm that could really take 
advantage of content addressible memories.  Although some things could be
done, it really didn't help the concepts of data and code in languages such
as Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, or C.  Now that we are seeing the emergence of
object-oriented programming (it's no longer just a toy :-)), we will begin
to see a growing popularity in content adressible memories.


-- 
Larry Pelletier   Advanced Development, E&M Wichita

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