Register Machine Models
For more details on this topic, see Register machine.van Emde Boas (1990) includes all machines of this type in one category (group, class, collection) -- "the register machine". However, historically the literature has also called the most primitive member of this group i.e. "the counter machine" -- "the register machine". And the most primitive embodiment of a "counter machine" is sometimes called the "Minsky machine".
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