JOSS: CENTRAL PROCESSING ROUTINES

Abstract

This is a reference guide for JOSS users to (1) the language used for couching instructions to JOSS; (2) JOSS's responses to instructions; (3) the collection of machine-language routines (in JOSS's central computer) responsible for interpreting and responding to instructions; and (4) the details and decisions that bilaterally influenced the language and the design and implementation of the routines. The myriad details of total system design are given constant exposure, and particular emphasis is placed on the delicate balance and symbiosis that must exist among system, language, computer, and routines and on the pervasive effects of each component on the others. The material is presented in a narrative form, augmented by flow-chart representations of most of the principal routines, and is in part designed to serve as prolegomena to the annotated machine-language listings of the routines (copies of which are obtainable from RAND).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0661539

Entities

People

  • J. W. Smith

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Central Processing Units
  • Coding
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Core Storage
  • Language
  • Machine Languages
  • Magnetic Disks
  • Notation
  • Numbers
  • Programming Languages
  • Square Roots
  • Standards
  • United States

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