"Picture Logic" for "Bacchus" a Fourth-Generation Computer

This paper examines the logical problems involved in designing a proposed "picture arithmetic" computer ("Bacchus") operating by transferring, inverting, shifting and superposing whole pictures of information, in parallel, simultaneously, without scanning. Each picture is controlled by a onebit device of "third generation" hardware, and may contain up to 10 elements switched in as little as 10 ~ seconds, and up to 10 pictures are possible. Associated problems such as input, output, and realization of this logic are considered in varying degrees of completeness. Serious heat problems will be met in the region 10 to 10 logical operations per second.