This design is almost identical to the early Vector Processors
of the late 1950s and early 1960s, which also critically relied
-on implicit auto-increment addressing. The barrel-architecture neatly
-solves one of the inherent problems of those early designs ( a mismatch in memory
+on implicit auto-increment addressing.
+The [CDC STAR-100](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_STAR-100)
+for example was specifically designed as a Memory-to-Memory Vector
+Processor. The barrel-architecture of Snitch neatly
+solves one of the inherent problems of those early designs (a mismatch
+with memory
speed) and the presence of a full register file caters for a
second limitation of pure Memory-based Vector Processors: temporary
variables needed in the computation of intermediate results, which