Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!ncrwic!encad!enint!lpelleti 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 References: <12371@srcsip.UUCP> Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, Kansas Lines: 19 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<{ece-csc,hubcap,gould,rtech}!ncrcae!ncrwic!l.pelletier> <{sdcsvax,cbatt,dcdwest,nosc.ARPA,ihnp4}!ncr-sd!ncrwic!l.pelletier>