Process and data system using data qualifiers

摘要

The invention relates to data processing systems making use of an addressable memory. It proposes a process and system permitting qualifying terms to be associated with the data contained in the data memory by writing these qualifying terms at locations associated with the data within a qualifier and set aside for this purpose. These qualifying terms are characteristics of the data or the processing undergone by the data. The qualifier memory, which is interfaced with the processor as though it was a peripheral I/O device, uses an INTERUPT to alert the processor of the occurrence of a call on data which has an associated qualifier.