Automatic Data Processing: System/360 Edition

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Chapter 1 presents the necessary foundation and has been limited to topics essential to the remainder of the book, such as number systems, congruences, symbolic logic and encoding. Chapter 2-4 treat manual, semiautomatic (punched card), and automatic equipment, respectively. Chapter 4 treats the automatic computer in terms of a specific existing computer, the IBM 650 computer. The internal operation of computers, emphasizing organization rather than details, is treated in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 develops in some detail the vital and rarely treated topic of representation of data in computer storages and other topics in advanced programming. Chapter 7 develops the important topic of sorting, giving numerous explicit sorting algorithms and comparative evaluations. Chapter 8 treats the use of auxiliary computer programs in programming (automatic programming), program analysis (debugging), and manual control. Chapter 9 draws on its predecessors for a brief discussion of the art and technique of system design.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA PROCESSING
1
Switching tree
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MANUAL DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
52
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