Types of "Pointer Machines"
Both Gurevich and Ben-Amram list a number of very similar "atomistic" models" of "abstract machines"; Ben-Amram believes that the 6 "atomistic models" must be distinguished from "High-level" models. This article will discuss the following 3 atomistic models in particular:
- Schönhage's Storage Modification Machines (SMM),
- Kolmogorov-Uspenskii Machines (KUM or KU-Machines),
- Knuth's "Linking Automaton"
But Ben-Amram add more:
- Atomistic Pure-LISP Machine (APLM)
- Atomistic Full-LISP machine (AFLM),
- General atomistic Pointer Machines,
- Jone's I Language (two types)
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