# Stack Machine
**Domain:** Computer Architecture
**Doc Type:** Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Related:** [[B5000]], [[ALGOL]], [[Computer Architecture]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]
## Definition
A stack machine organizes computation primarily through operands and control information held on a stack rather than through a large exposed register set.
## Bauhaus Architects Context
Burroughs used the architecture to align hardware closely with block-structured high-level languages.
## Backlinks
- [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]
- [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]