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Author	Way, F. Glaser, E. L.
Abstract	Although the field of computation has been of the most explosively expansive in the history of mankind, still we find certain basic ideas which were valid many years ago are still assumed to be valid today. On the other hand, some apparent truths that were discovered at the beginning of the computer era unfortunately have been lost in antiquity and must be rediscovered, not once but many times. In this paper we do not expect to be definitive but at least to examine some of these myths, the true and the false, and perhaps to find some that should be destroyed and to uncover others to prevent younger workers from having to rediscover what each of us has had to do several times ourselves. To compound our problem we have the fact that the electronic calculator of the programmable variety is now starting to encroach and has already well overlapped the capabilities of the minicomputer. "This new machine is a hybrid. It overlaps both the minicomputer and the programmable desk calculator. The standard machine containing 1000 locations is capable of containing a program of over 2000 steps. In addition, specialized tape units using modern cassettes are available. The basic machine comes equipped with a number sufficient to handle all of your temporary storage needs, will enable you to bring in new programming systems, and it will even have sufficient facilities to permit you to sort blocks of data. As a consequence this machine will meet the needs of office, laboratory, or accounting room! Its size is moderate and will fit on a reasonably large desk. Cost is under \$18,000. As a special added feature, its basic instruction set is implemented by using the most modern techniques of microprogramming and, therefore, may be modified in the future as the manufacturer develops new classes of instructions that will be of use to the various customers of this excellent machine. Programming systems that take full advantage of the human oriented decimal arithmetic are already available with it and, furthermore, all registers can handle both numeric and alphanumeric quantities! For further information circle . . .".
Starting Page	1045
Ending Page	1048
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/1480083.1480137
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1972-12-05
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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