Planning a computer system : Project Stretch

[Authorization]......Page 1 [Dust jacket]......Page 3 [Cover]......Page 7 Forward (Carlson)......Page 13 Preface (Buchholz)......Page 15 Acknowledgments......Page 17 Contents......Page 19 1: Project Stretch (Buchholz)......Page 26 2: Architectural Philosophy (Brooks)......Page 30 3: System Summary of IBM 7030 (Buchholz)......Page 42 4: Natural Data Units (Blaauw, Brooks, Buchholz)......Page 58 5: Choosing a Number Base (Buchholz)......Page 67 6: Character Set (Bemer and Buchholz)......Page 85 7: Variable-Field-Length Operation (Blaauw, Brooks, and Buchholz)......Page 100 8: Floating-Point Operation (Campbell)......Page 117 9: Instruction Formats (Buchholz)......Page 147 10: Instruction Sequencing (Brooks)......Page 158 11: Indexing (Blaauw)......Page 175 12: Input-Output Control (Buchholz)......Page 204 13: Multiprogramming (Codd, Lowry, McDonough, and Scalzi)......Page 218 14: The Central Processing Unit (Bloch)......Page 227 15: The Look-Ahead Unit (Ballance, Cocke, and Kolsky)......Page 253 16: The Exchange (Buchholz)......Page 273 17: A NonArithmetical System Extension (Campbell, Herwitz, and Pomerene)......Page 279 Appendix A: Summary Data......Page 298 Appendix B: Programming Examples......Page 317 Index......Page 330