A time- and memory-sharing executive program for quick-response, on-line applications

  • Authors:
  • James W. Forgie

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '65 (Fall, part II) Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part II: computers: their impact on society
  • Year:
  • 1965

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Abstract

The TX-2 Computer, an experimental facility at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, has been in operation since 1960. Never a service facility, the computer has been used principally in a number of long-term research projects that have taken advantage of the special input/output capabilities and the direct accessibility of the machine. These projects have included graphics, waveform processing, and pattern recognition. Most of the work on the computer has involved real-time inputs, interaction with output displays, or both. The computer has always been used as an on-line facility with the bulk of its time allotted in sessions of several hours duration. Programming has been in machine language, augmented in the past by a number of personal macro languages and recently by a more general macro language for list processing (CORAL). An on-line macro assembler, MK 4, has been used both as an assembly program and on-line operating system by most users.