The development of the MU5 computer system

1 January 1978

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 21 (1) , 13-24
https://doi.org/10.1145/359327.359333

Abstract

Following a brief outline of the background of the MU5 project, the aims and ideas for MU5 are discussed. A description is then given of the instruction set, which includes a number of features conducive to the production of efficient compiled code from high-level language source programs. The design of the processor is then traced from the initial ideas for an associatively addressed “name store” to the final multistage pipeline structure involving a prediction mechanism for instruction prefetching and a function queue for array element accessing. An overall view of the complete MU5 complex is presented together with a brief indication of its performance.

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