AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1899-12-30DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478538
Bertram Bussell, R. A. Koster
{"title":"Instrumenting computer systems and their programs","authors":"Bertram Bussell, R. A. Koster","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478538","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the high cost and sophistication of data processing equipment, it is almost incredible that techniques for computer system measurement and evaluation have lagged so far behind. While it is true that computer technology has advanced at a rapid rate during the past 20 years, it is surprising that instrumentation for displaying system efficiency has only recently been given exposure in the literature; and even that literature is sparse.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132579080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1899-12-30DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478515
W. R. Dodds
{"title":"Multiprogramming in a medium-sized hybrid environment","authors":"W. R. Dodds","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478515","url":null,"abstract":"Of the many roles that the digital computer plays in a full hybrid environment, few are amenable to multiprogramming. Usually, the speed mismatch between a modern high-speed analog computer and the typical scientific digital computer used in hybrid systems demands that the digital be fully dedicated to the particular task in progress. However, the use of the digital computer for analog computer setup and checkout is a function which is performed several times a day in an active hybrid computation laboratory, and this task does not make any severe demands upon the digital computer. This paper describes a multiprogramming system used to effectively set up and check out an analog computer while still performing routine background processing such as compilation.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126956055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1899-12-30DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478492
V. Lum, H. Ling, M. Senko
{"title":"Analysis of a complex data management access method by simulation modeling","authors":"V. Lum, H. Ling, M. Senko","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478492","url":null,"abstract":"The typical paper on file organization presents a qualitative discussion of a proposed search structure. In a very few instances, the writer may include one or two numbers to indicate system performance. In reading these papers, one is led to the impression that file design is an extremely simple problem and that intuitive guesses can easily provide optimal answers. However, the sophisticated file designer knows from experience that there are many relevant parameters and that they can drastically affect performance. This knowledge can, however, be frustrating because he cannot afford the machine time and resources to obtain a good design by performing an adequate parametric study on possible file organizations. (For example, setting up a large file in just one configuration can require several hours of machine time and several man days or weeks.)","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125875020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1899-12-30DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478465
S. Schuman, P. Jorrand
{"title":"Definition mechanisms in extensible programming languages","authors":"S. Schuman, P. Jorrand","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478465","url":null,"abstract":"The development of extensible programming languages is currently an extremely active area of research, and one which is considered very promising by a broad segment of the computing community. This paper represents an attempt at unification and generalization of these developments, reflecting a specific perspective on their present direction of evolution. The principal influences on this work are cited in the bibliography, and the text itself is devoid of references. This is indicative of the recurring difficulty of attributing the basic ideas in this area to any single source; from the start, the development effort has been characterized by an exceptional interchange of ideas.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131414572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1899-12-30DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478513
J. F. Ossanna, J. Saltzer
{"title":"Technical and human engineering problems in connecting terminals to a time-sharing system","authors":"J. F. Ossanna, J. Saltzer","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478513","url":null,"abstract":"Today, an increasing number of computer systems are used interactively by their user communities. Interactive use of computers, involving more prolonged man-machine contact than non-interactive use, requires a well human engineered user-system interface. The interactive user's performance---his rate of doing work and his ability and desire to utilize system capability---is a sensitive function of the success of this human engineering. In turn, the computer system's effectiveness depends on achieving a satisfactory level of user performance with reasonable efficiency.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114698894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1899-12-30DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478468
R. Meade
{"title":"On memory system design","authors":"R. Meade","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478468","url":null,"abstract":"A hierarchy of information accessibility exists in every system. Even simple calculators employ a two-level hierarchy consisting of internal registers and external key-entered data. In a typical computer system we find a multilevel hierarchy extending from working registers through random-access main-memory, to direct access devices, to sequential access devices, and on outward to off-line archives.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128071001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1899-12-30DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478548
N. Palley, D. Erbeck, J. Trotter
{"title":"Programming in the medical real-time environment","authors":"N. Palley, D. Erbeck, J. Trotter","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478548","url":null,"abstract":"The Shock Research Unit (SRU) is a specialized clinical research facility developed for the triple purposes of rendering intensive care to seriously ill patients, studying underlying mechanisms of the disease process of circulatory shock, and developing new technologies for evaluating the status and treatment of seriously ill patients.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121855247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}