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Gerrit Blaauw Quotes

1924–2018

Gerrit Anne (Gerry) Blaauw (July 17, 1924 - March 21, 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others.

Also known as: Gerrit A. Blaauw

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The architecture of a system can be defined as the functional appearance of the system to the user.

Blaauw (1972)

A hardware design language should be (i) sufficiently high level, (ii) conversational, (iii) general purpose, and (iv) structured

Specification of Digital Systems (1978)

[The architecture specification covers] all functions of the machine that are observable by the program.

In computer design three levels can be distinguished: architecture, implementation and realisation; for the ﬁrst of them, the following working deﬁnition is given: The architecture of a system can be defined as the functional appearance of the system to the user, its phenomenology.

Computer architecture (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gerrit Blaauw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.