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Index


Absolute addressing, 521

Abstractions, 9, 110

Accumulator, 23

Ackermann's function, 77
Address extension in HP 9845A, 526-530
Address relocation in C.mmp, 353
Address translation:

in System/360, 839
virtual memory, 229

Addressing, 70-78

absolute, 521

auto indexing, 23, 26
capability, 233
direct, 73
immediate, 73
indirect, 26, 73, 519

relative, 521

Addressing modes:

in Intel 8086, 626-629
in PDP-11, 656-659, 667
in System/360, 701-702
in VAX-11/780, 718-721

Air traffic control with STARAN, 326-330
ALGOL language, 14
Alias, in ISP, 23
ALOHANET.(ALOHA Network), 337,346,

400-401, 416-428

Alto, 16, 548-572
Am2900, 154-157, 168
Am2901, 168-179, 185

used in PDP-8, 219-226

Am2903, 186-205, 216-218
Am2909, 180-184
Am2910, 205-215, 218

used in PDP-8, 219-226

Amdahl, G. M., 16
Amdahl's rule, 46
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), 59
AND instruction, 27, 30
APPLE computer, 547
APPLE language, 322-323, 547
Architecture:

definition of, 16
duplex, 460-462
(See also under specific systems)

Arithmetic assignment, 31
ARPANET (ARPA Network), 337,346,

396-400, 402-415, 565

Array modules in STARAN, 319-321
Array processor, 91, 166, 269-275

Illiac IV, 40, 45, 91, 267-269, 306-316
STARAN, 91, 269-275, 317-331
in System/360, 870-871
TI ASC, 91, 690-693, 753-762

Associative array processor, STARAN, 91,

269-275, 317-331

Atlas, 6, 104-106, 135-148, 242

drum transfer learning program, 143-145

Attached Processing Unit (APU), 877
Attribute, 19
Authorization for operation, 541-543
Auto indexing, 23, 26
AUTODIN network, 389
Availability, fault-tolerant systems, 439

 

B 5000,6, 76, 77, 96-105, 129-134,230,

242
character mode, 134
descriptor call, 133
operand call, 133

B 5500, 97, 241
B 6500/B 7500, 97, 98, 105, 244-250

cactus stack, 249
display registers, 247-248
indirect reference word, 245
mark stack control word, 250
program control word, 244
stuffed indirect reference word, 245

B 6700, 77, 99-104, 106, 230

Edit operators, 101
Maintenance and Diagnostic Processor, 104
Primary operators, 101
Variant operators, 101

B 7500 (see B 6500/B 7500)
B 7700, 99-104, 106
B lines, 136-137
Bank registers, 550
Barrel in CDC 6600, 685-686, 730
Base page, 520
BASIC language, 486, 487, 509-512

in HP 9830, 811-812

BCD (binary-coded decimal) numbers,

arithmetic operations, 639-642

Benchmark program, 44
Bit slice:

Am2901, 168-179, 185
Am2903, 186-205, 216-218

BitBlt (bit boundary block transfer), 558
Bitmap, 556-558
Blaauw, G. A., 16
Block:

home, 527-530
working, 527-530

Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), 403

BPCL language, 550-551, 569
Broadcasting in networks, 389
Brooks, F. P., 16
BRT (Bus Receive Table), 475-476
Buffer:

frame, 556
instruction, 161
translation-lookaside, 839

Buffered I/O, 516-517
Buffering in System/360 Model 91, 279
Bus, 83, 84

common data, in System/360 Model 91, 293-302
serial, 333-338, 346

Bus couplers, 375-376
Bus link, 333-340, 346
Bus protocol, 521-522
Bus switch, 333-341, 346
Bus window, 333-342, 346


C8PDF, 547-548
Cache, 232-234, 240-242

hit ratio, 241-242
in PDP-11, 675-676
set-associative implementations, 232

Call store (CS) in ESS system, 460
Capabilities, 359, 365-366, 534-540
Capability addressing, 233
Capacitor, 10
CARE (computer-aided reliability estimation)

program, 455

Carry, ripple, 176, 195
Carry generate, 170, 175, 177
Carry lookahead, 170, 175, 177, 195
CDC 160, 647
CDC 3600, 54
CDC 6600,8,22,40,74,90,240,682-687,

730- 742

CDC 7600, 687
CDC CYBER, 687-689
CDC STAR, 45
Central (Pc) processor, 18, 90-91
CFA (Computer Family Architecture)

Project, Army-Navy, 49
absolute criteria, 50
initial screening, 50-53
quantitative criteria, 50-53
test programs, 57-60

Chaining in CRAY-1, 749
Channel, 91

(See also IBM System/360, channel)

Channel command word (CCW), 705-706

 

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