Computer organization

Claim 1

A COMPUTER COMPRISING: (1) A CENTRAL CONTROL MEANS; (2) AN ARRAY OF PROCESSING ELEMENTS UNDER SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL OF SAID CENTRAL CONTROL MEANS; (3) COMMON WORD MEANS FOR STORING AN INFORMATION WORD FOR USE AS DATA BY TWO OR MORE PROCESSING ELEMENTS FOR CARRYING OUT, SIMULTANEOUSLY, DESIRED OPERATIONS INCLUDING SAID INFORMATION WORD; (4) EACH SAID PROCESSING ELEMENT INCLUDING; (A) MEMORY MEANS FOR STORING DATA, (B) LOGIC AND ARITHMETIC MEANS FOR CARRYING OUT DESIRED OPERATIONS DESIGNATED BY SAID CENTRAL CONTROL MEANS, AND (C) ROUTING MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF GATES FOR RECEIVING SAID DATA FROM SAID MEMORY MEANS AND OPERABLE IN RESPONSE TO ROUTING SIGNALS FROM SAID CENTRAL CONTROL MEANS, TO ROUTE SAID DATA TO SAID LOGIC AND ARITHMETIC MEANS OR TO OTHER PRESELECTED PROCESSING ELEMENTS, DEPENDING UPON SAID ROUTING SIGNALS, SAID ROUTING MEANS ADDITIONALLY OPERABLE TO RECEIVE THE INFORMATION WORD FROM SAID COMMON WORD MEANS TO GATE SAID WORD TO SAID LOGIC AND ARITHMETIC MEANS IN THE ABSENCE OF SAID ROUTING SIGNALS.