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Alternative computer architectures? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

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So far, I've come across these three terms:

Princeton (John von Neumann) architecture
Harvard architecture
Modified Harvard architecture

Is that it? What about some of the other alternatives?

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[–] PaX@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's definitely not it but it's very difficult to find research (especially ongoing research is very rare) or even information on alternatives to the currently dominant (due to monopoly) von Neumann, binary, register machine, instruction-set-having, etc architectures.

You might try looking into dataflow, logic-based (like computers that do Prolog), or transport-triggered architectures. Or Lisp machines too.