Planning a Computer System: Project Stretch |
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Foreword | 1 |
Multiprogramming | 13 |
System Summary of IBM 7030 | 17 |
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accumulator operand address modification arithmetic unit automatically base address binary addressing branch instruction byte central processing unit channel Chap characters control word count decimal digits desired divisor double-length double-precision efficiency example executed exponent flag extra fetch field fixed-point arithmetic floating-point arithmetic FLP arithmetic FLP number FLP operations fraction functions high-order increment index address index arithmetic index register index value index word indicator indirect addressing input input-output units instruction counter instruction formats instruction set integer length LOAD logical look-ahead unit machine mask bit memory area memory operand memory word modifier multiprogramming natural data units normalized FLP operand address operation code output performance precision problem program-interrupt progressive indexing quotient radix range record refill result round-off error sequence shift sign bit single single-length specified speed storage stored subroutine subtraction supervisory program Table tape tion unnormalized variable-field-length VFL instruction VFL operations zero