IBM: APL/360 primer: Student text
IBM: APL/360 primer: Student text
Banyan networks for partitioning multiprocessor systems
25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture (selected papers)
MPACT: microprocessor application to control-firmware translator
ACM SIGDA Newsletter
Banyan networks for partitioning multiprocessor systems
ISCA '73 Proceedings of the 1st annual symposium on Computer architecture
Computer Modules: An architecture for large digital modules
ISCA '73 Proceedings of the 1st annual symposium on Computer architecture
PRIME: a modular architecture for terminal-oriented systems
AFIPS '72 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference
A new minicomputer/multiprocessor for the ARPA network
AFIPS '73 Proceedings of the June 4-8, 1973, national computer conference and exposition
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An alternative approach to the design and organization of a general purpose interactive multiterminal computing system is presented. The system organization described is a conceptually simple arrangement of a bank of interchangeable computers, each of which is a memory/proputor pair, that are assigned to process terminal jobs as they arrive. One of the computers serves as the master or control computer and supervises the collection and distribution of messages from and to the remote terminals. In the simplest form there is a disk drive for each connected terminal. A crosspoint switching network allows any such disk drive to be connected to any computer in the bank, under control of the control computer. Thus, while each active terminal user “occupies” a dedicated disk drive, he may share the computer with many other terminal users in a simple manner. The ratio of users to computers is dependent on both the size and power of the machines used and the computation requirements of the particular mix of users.This system organization is inherently a simpler and therefore more reliable approach to time-sharing computers and has the potential of a highly available system at relatively low cost. Economic configurations are possible for a range of systems sizes that span at least one order of magnitude. Finally, problem programs developed by remote terminal users can be run on a dedicated batch system if compatible computers are used.