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'''STARAN''' in the [[information technology]] industry might be the first commercially available computer designed around an [[Content-addressable memory|associative memory]]. The STARAN computer was designed and built by [[Goodyear Aerospace Corporation]]. It is a [[content-addressable parallel processor]] (CAPP), a type of [[Parallel computing|parallel processor]] which uses [[content-addressable memory]]. STARAN is {{clarify span|a [[SIMD|single instruction, multiple data]] array processor with a 4x256 [[1-bit architecture|1-bit]] [[processing element]] (PE) computer|reason=Please rephrase as it’s unclear how to parse this phrase and/or what exactly this means|date=May 2022}}. The STARAN machines became available in 1972.

Goodyear Aerospace later developed the [[Goodyear MPP|MPP]] based on similar principles but with a larger and wider processor array.

== See also ==
*[[Index of computing articles]]
*[[Outline of computers]]
*[[Outline of computing]]

== References ==
* {{Citation | last= Goodyear Aerospace Corporation |title=STARAN S APPLE-Programming Manual GER-15637 | publisher=Goodyear Aerospace Corporation |place=Akron, Ohio |year=1972}}
* {{Citation | first=Caxton C. | last=Foster | title=Content Addressable Parallel Processors | publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold Company | place=New York | year=1976 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/contentaddressab0000fost/page/169 169, 223] | isbn=0-442-22433-8 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/contentaddressab0000fost/page/169 }}
* {{Citation |first=Kenneth E |last=Batcher |chapter=STARAN parallel processor system hardware |chapter-url=http://www.cs.kent.edu/~parallel/papers/p405-batcher.pdf |title=National Computer Conference |year=1974 |pages=405–410}}

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