R68-41 Development of Executive Routines, Both Hardware and Software

Innumerable papers by Russian authors using probabilistic models for physical systems are prefaced by a comment explaining that the results obtained must follow from dialectic materialism, and therefore the same results could in principle be derived deterministically ll as statistically, save for mathematical convenience. A similarly political motivation may unconsciously underlie many papers in the computer field which explain that ever more elaborate executive programs are motivated exclusively by a desire to increase hardware efficiency and improve system economy