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Contents1

Preface

xiii

Part 1

FUNDAMENTALS

 

 

Section 1

 

 

 

ABSTRACTION AND NOTATION

3

CHAPTER

1

Computer Classes and Evolution

4

 

2

Levels and Abstractions

9

 

3

PMS Notation

17

 

4

An Introduction to ISPS

Mario B. Barbacci

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 2

 

 

 

THE COMPUTER SPACE

33

CHAPTER

5

Function and Performance

39

 

6

Structure

62

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 3

 

 

 

COMPUTERS OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

96

CHAPTER

7

The Manchester Mark 1

S. H. Lavington

 107

 

 

 

 

8

Structural Levels of the PDP-8

C. Gordon Bell, Allen Newell, and

Daniel P. Siewiorek

 110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

Design of the B 5000 System

William Lonergan and Paul King

 129

 

 

 

 

10

One-Level Storage System

T. Kilburn, D. B. G. Edwards, M. J. Lanigan,

and F. H. Sumner

 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

M. V. Wilkes and J. B. Stringer

 158

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

Microprogramming the IBM System/360 Model 30

  164

 

 

Helmut Weber

 

 

13

Bit-Sliced Microprocessor of the Am2900 Family: The Ain290112909

 168

 

 

 

 

 

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

 

 

14

The Am2903I2910

 186

 

 

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

 

 

15

A PDP-8 Implemented from AMD

Bit-Sliced Microprocessors

 219

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Tsao

 

 

39

Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the PDP-11 Family

 666

 

 

 

 

 

Edward A. Snow and Daniel P. Siewiorek

 

 

34

TMSlOOO/1200: Chip Architecture and Operation

 581

 

 

 

 

 

Texas Instruments, Inc.

 

 

48

The HP Model 9100A Computing Calculator

 787

 

 

Richard E. Monnier, Thomas E. Osborne, and

 

 

 

David S. Cochran

 

 

49

The HP 9810/20/30 Series

801

‘This is a ‘virtual" contents, which means that because many of the computers are relevant to more than one part and section, we have used italic type for chapter numbers and titles to indicate a non-sequential mapping for computers placed out of ‘physical" order. The reader might read (reference) the book according to the virtual order. See the preface for further discussion.

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