Iterative circuit computers

The paper first discusses an example of a computer, intended as a prototype of a practical computer, having an iterative structure and capable of processing arbitrarily many words of stored data at the same time, each by a different sub-program if desired. Next a mathematical characterization is given of a broad class of computers satisfying the conditions just stated. Finally the characterization is related to a program aimed at establishing a theory of adaptive systems via the concept of automaton generators.