Rice Institute Computer

Rice Institute Computer

The Rice Institute Computer, also known as the Rice Computer or R1, was a 54-bit tagged architecture digital computer built during the years 1958-1961 (partially operational beginning in 1959) on the campus of Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States. Operating as Rice's sole computer until the late 1960s, the Rice Institute Computer was decommissioned in 1971.

Memory

Memory was implemented using a variety of technologies over the lifetime of the R1. Originally a Cathode Ray Tube array, RCA core memory was introduced in 1966, followed by Ampex core memory in 1967. Following these two upgrades, the R1 had reached its full 32k word capacity; although the original electrostatic memory was soon decommissioned due to falling reliability in its old age.

Architecture

The R1 had seven memory mapped general purpose processor registers, each 54-bits in size, in addition to a constant zero register. For memory addressing, seven 16-bit "B-Registers" were used. The program counter was also held in a writable "B-Register". See the table below for conventions and hardware enforced usage of these registers.

ee also

[http://www.princeton.edu/~adam/R1/r1rpt.html A Brief History of the Rice Computer 1959-1971]


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