Variable topology random access memory organizations
Martin A. Fischler, Allen Reiter · 1969
One of the most basic of all computer operations is the actual or virtual construction of a data sequence to be used either as the operand for a simple data transfer, or as the argument of a functional transformation. In a significant number of practical situations, the data from which the string is to be constructed are physically scattered prior to the proposed operation or must be scattered after the operation due to physical space limitations or for reasons dictated by the logical structuring requirements of the application.