Automatic Data Processing: System/360 EditionChapter 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. |
Contents
FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA PROCESSING | 1 |
Switching tree | 24 |
MANUAL DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | 52 |
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algorithm allocation argument language argument program arithmetic assembler instruction automatic base register bits branch bubble sort byte called character circuit classification column sort components condition code copy corresponding data processing decimal digits deck defined devices EBCDIC elements encoding entry error example execution field Figure floating-point format function program generate-time Hamming code index register initial input input-output insertion integer Load logical loop low-order machine macro-operation magnetic matrix mechanism memory merge merge sort methods multiplication operand parameters performed position positional notation print-through printing produce Prog punched card radix point reading station records representation represented result scan length second operand selection selection sort selector sequence serial shift shows single specified step storage stored strings subroutine subtraction symbol table tape tion translation truth function truth table usually variables vector zero ร ร ร