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Communications of the ACM, Volume 16, Issue 6

Pages 370 - 372

https://doi.org/10.1145/362248.362270

Published: 01 June 1973 Publication History

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The concept of “threaded code” is presented as an alternative to machine language code. Hardware and software realizations of it are given. In software it is realized as interpretive code not needing an interpreter. Extensions and optimizations are mentioned.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 16, Issue 6

June 1973

60 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/362248

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