Joel Mc Cormack

Joel Mc Cormack

Joel McCormack is the designer of the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine which is a kind of Stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement new computing architectures and languages such as Pascal and BCPL. The NCR design shares no common architecture with the Pascal MicroEngine designed by Western Digital but both were meant to execute the UCSD p-System.

Read more about Joel Mc Cormack:  P-machine Theory, P-machine Design, P-machine Architecture, P-machine Performance, Education, Later Employment, Publications

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    They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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