The central processors of conventional computers may be roughly divided into two sections,
an arithmetic section, which performs operations analogous to arithmetic upon …

The subject computer is a 16-bit, one microsecond, integrated circuit computer implemented
with picoprogrammed internal control.(Picoprogramming is conceptually comparable to …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the feasibility of microprogrammed routines for
monitoring significant digits in the numerical result of digital computers in real time. The first …

It is proposed to substitute the standard data type real of a high level language, with a
unified data representation which can include a variety of interpretations as well as formats …

The English Electric KDF. 9 computing system has a number of unusual features whose
origins are to be found in certain decisions reached at an early stage in the planning of the …

Multiplication speed was once an accurate measure of the speed of an automatic calculator,
because the prominent problems of that earlier day required a lot of multiplication but had …

A coherent arithmetic system with addition, subtraction, and multiplication is described.
Truncation and cancellation phenomena show the limits of the floating-point number …

This paper describes the CM-2X prototype. This one-of-a-kind machine is the result of a
Supercomputing Research Center/Thinking Machines Corporation joint effort to examine the …

As has been seen from the discussion of the 6600 organization, the hardware design leaves
a flexible arrangement, and communication between the 10 peripheral processors (PP's) …

Computers capable of executing more than one instruction at a time, eg buffered I/O
instructions executing in parallel with computation, have been available for many years …