Parallel memory, multiple processing, variable word length computer

Claim 1

IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING MEMORY MEANS WHICH WILL DELIVER A PLURALITY OF DATA BIT GROUPS UPON EACH ACCESS; EACH GROUP BEING SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSABLE BY THE DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM; AT LEAST A FIRST PART OF A WORD TO BE HANDLED BY PROCESSING MEANS OF SAID PROCESSING SYSTEM BEING MANIFESTED BY AT LEAST ONE OF SAID GROUPS IN DEPENDENCE UPON THE ADDRESS OF THE FIRST GROUP IN COMPARISON WITH THE ADDRESSES OF ALL THE DATA BITS GROUPS DELIVERED BY SAID MEMORY MEANS IN THE SAME ACCESS THEREOF; A WORD BEING AT LEAST ONE GROUP; SAID DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING A PROCESSING CAPACITY IN EXCESS OF A SINGLE GROUP; SAID DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM BEING CAPABLE OF GENERATING AND RESPONDING TO SUCCESSIVE CYCLE SIGNALS SO AS TO PERFORM SUCCESSIVE CYCLES OF OPERATION AS WILL ACCESS SUCCESSIVE MEMORY GROUP SETS IN SAID MEMORY MEANS; SAID MEMORY GROUP SETS EACH CONTAINING AS MANY GROUPS AS THE LESSER OF THE NUMBER OF GROUPS RELATED TO SAID FIRST GROUP AND THE CAPACITY OF SAID SYSTEM; A BOUNDARY ADJUSTING MEANS COMPRISING: ADDRESSING MEANS FOR GENERATING, IN A FIRST CYCLE, MANIFESTATIONS OF AN ADDRESS WITHIN SAID MEMORY WHEREIN THE FIRST GROUP OF SAID FIRST WORD IS STORED, SAID ADDRESSING MEANS EXERCISING CONTROL OVER SAID MEMORY MEANS SO AS TO CAUSE SAID MEMORY TO DELIVER A PLURALITY OF GROUPS, INCLUDING THE GROUP RELATED TO THE ADDRESS SPECIFIED BY SAID ADDRESSING MEANS, IN ONE ACCESS OF SAID MEMORY; SAID ADDRESSING MEANS ALSO CAPABLE OF GENERATING THE ADDRESS OF A GROUP OTHER THAN SAID FIRST GROUP; ANALYZING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID ADDRESSING MEANS FOR DETERMINING A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF GROUPS RELATED TO SAID FIRST GROUP WHICH ARE DELIVERED BY SAID MEMORY MEANS AT EACH ACCESS THEREOF; EXTERNAL STORAGE MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE GROUPS DELIVERED BY SAID MEMORY MEANS FOR STORING A PLURALITY OF GROUPS RELATED TO GROUPS SPECIFIED BY SAID ADDRESSING MEANS; AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID ANALYZING MEANS FOR CAUSING AN INITIAL ACCESS RESPONSE, OF ONE OR MORE INITIAL MEMORY ACCESSES, TO OCCUR, AS NECESSARY, SO AS TO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT GROUPS TO SAID EXTERNAL STORAGE MEANS TO UTILIZE THE PROCESSING CAPACITY OF SAID SYSTEM DURING A PROCESSING CYCLE FIRST FOLLOWING SAID INITIAL ACCESS RESPONSE, SAID PROCESSING MEANS PROCESSING AT LEAST SAID FIRST GROUP AFTER SAID INITIAL MEMORY RESPONSE.