Sunday, December 12, 2010

Qualitum Computers 2

I am starting to think of operators, methods, functions, subroutines, and procedures as qualitum computing. Where operators are usually in the instruction set of the computer, the others are linked at runtime into an address space, so they are numerical. There are address spaces in geography that are coordinate and label based. Maybe if computers had two dimensional memory, things get more interesting. This reminds me of Jed Donnelley's IMPACT processor, where operators are positioned on a grid: http://www.webstart.com/jed/impact.pdf

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