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An E-Machine workbench

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The development environment for microprogramming an implementation (E-Machine) of the Burroughs stack architecture (E-Mode) is discussed with an overview of a supporting hardware organization (the Alpha machine). The set of information-sharing tools in the E-Machine workbench, especially the structured language Ohne, is described and a sample E-Mode operator is used to illustrate several of these tools.

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    cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
    ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 14, Issue 4
    December 1983
    205 pages
    ISSN:1050-916X
    DOI:10.1145/1096419
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    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

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