By Lynn D. Yarbrough
Communications of the ACM,
October 1960,
Vol. 3 No. 10, Page 539
10.1145/367415.367426
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In the past two years or so I have seen a number of papers and heard a number of talks describing the characteristics of (and the wonders inherent in) certain computers like Gamma 60, LARC, H-800, STRETCH, and others. Of course, all these machines share a capacity for parallel asynchronous multiple processing. Now this is a truly marvelous property, especially from the point of view of the common variety of “my-job's-on-the-machine-keep-your-cotton-pickin'-hands-off” programmer.
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