• DOI:10.1145/355580.369093
• Corpus ID: 6781648

Fixed-word-length arrays in variable-word-length computers

@article{Sonquiest1962FixedwordlengthAI,
  title={Fixed-word-length arrays in variable-word-length computers},
  author={John A. Sonquiest},
  journal={Commun. ACM},
  year={1962},
  volume={5},
  pages={602}
}

• John A. Sonquiest
• Published 1 December 1962
• Computer Science
• Commun. ACM

Scientific users of small-scale variable-word-length computers, such as the IBM 1401, may frequently have the occasion to use fixed-word-length arrays. For instance, it is common practice to store matrices row-wise in linear arrays. A linear array whose elements are addresses is a common storage allocation scheme for handling pushdown lists.