LSI-Implications for future design and architecture

Abstract

We attempt to justify a number of ways in which we believe LSI is most likely to affect systems design and architecture. It is not only the physical componentry of systems that will undergo change, but also our thinking, as an industry, about the goals, methods, uses and people associated with data processing. LSI will enlarge the scope of computer usage, while simultaneously reducing and altering the human effort required to install and use systems.