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ZMOB is a hardware architecture developed at the University of Maryland intended for artificial intelligence work. The system essentially consists of a ring of 256 Z80A microprocessors connected to a host computer (a DEC VAX-11) which communicates to each processor via a high speed 48 bit wide, 257 stage shift register called the “conveyor belt”. Each processor has its own 64 kbytes of memory and so the processors do not share common global data, but may only communicate by message passing via the high speed bus.
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Rieger, C., Trigg, R. and Bane, B. ZMOB: A New Computing Engine For AI. Technical Report TR-1028. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, 1981.
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Bundy, A., Wallen, L. (1984). ZMOB. In: Bundy, A., Wallen, L. (eds) Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Symbolic Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96868-6_263
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