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Contents in Brief

Part 1

FUNDAMENTALS

		Section 1
		ABSTRACTION AND NOTATION	3
CHAPTER	1	Computer Classes and Evolution	4
CHAPTER	2	Levels and Abstractions	9
CHAPTER	3	PMS Notation	17
CHAPTER	4	An Introduction to ISPS	23

		Section 2
		THE COMPUTER SPACE	33
CHAPTER	5	Function and Performance	39
CHAPTER	6	Structure	62
		Section 3
		COMPUTERS OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE	96
CHAPTER	7	The Manchester Mark 1	107
CHAPTER	8	Structural Levels of the PDP-8	110
CHAPTER	9	Design of the B 5000 System	129
CHAPTER	10	One-Level Storage System	135

Part 2

REGIONS OF COMPUTER SPACE

		Section 1
		MICROPROGRAM-BASED PROCESSORS	151
CHAPTER	11	Microprogramming and the Design of the
		Control Circuits in an Electronic Digital
		Computer	158
CHAPTER	12	Microprogramming the IBM System/360
		Model 30	164
CHAPTER	13	Bit-Sliced Microprocessor of the Am2900
		Family: The Ain290112909	168
CHAPTER	14	The Am2903I2910	186
CHAPTER	15	A PDP-8 Implemented from AMD
		Bit-Sliced Microprocessors	219
		Section 2
		MEMORY HIERARCHIES AND MULTIPLE PROCESSES	227
CHAPTER	16	Burroughs’ B6500/B7500 Stack Mechanism	244
CHAPTER	17	An Outline of the ICL 2900 Series System
		Architecture	251

		Section 3
		CONCURRENCY: SINGLE-PROCESSOR SYSTEMS	260
CHAPTER	18	The IBM System/360 Model 91: Machine
		Philosophy and Instruction-Handling	276
CHAPTER	19	An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting
		Multiple Arithmetic Units	293
CHAPTER	20	The Illiac IV System	306
CHAPTER	21	A Productive Implementation of an
		Associative Array Processor: STARAN	317

		Section 4
		MULTIPLE-PROCESSOR SYSTEMS	332

CHAPTER	22	The C.mmplHydra Project: An
		Architectural Overview	350
CHAPTER	23	Pluribus: An Operational Fault-Tolerant
		Multiprocessor	371

		Section 5
		NETWORKS	387
CHATTER	24	The Interface Message Processor for the
		ARPA Computer Network	402
CHAPTER	25	ALOHA Packet Broadcasting: A Retrospect	416
CHAPTER	26	Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for
		Local Computer Networks	429
		Section 6
		FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEMS	439
CHAPTER	27	The STAR (Self-Testing And Repairing)
		Computer: An Investigation of the Theory
		and Practice of Fault-Tolerant Computer
		Design	448
CHAPTER	28	Fault-Tolerant Design of Local ESS
		Processors	459
CHAPTER	29	The Tandem 16: A Fault-Tolerant
		Computing System	470

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