The University of Manchester MU5 project

Tom Kilburn

“…12 The MU5's original design proposal was set out in 1968 at the Edinburgh International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) conference in a paper authored jointly by Kilburn, Derrick Morris, Jeff Rohl, and Frank Sumner. 7,9 An interesting technical aspect of the MU5 was the associative name store in which frequently used scalar variables would automatically reside in a fast cache store. Morris explained, "This was as a result of an analysis of the Atlas software, especially the instruction code.…”