Peter J. Denning
Pages 493-494
Moving to a new system is costly and error-prone. The problem can be reduced through use of a virtual operating system that disentangles computing environments from their underlying operating systems. The authors report on their …
Dennis E. Hall, Deborah K. Scherrer, Joseph S. Sventek
Pages 495-502
When division is performed by a power series implementation with additions, subtractions, digit shifts, and multiplications, the convergence rate of the power series is important in practical application. Particularly if the
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Hitohisa Asai
Pages 503-510
The concept of a hierarchy of performance models is introduced. It is argued that such a hierarchy should consist of models spanning a wide range of accuracy and cost in order to be a cost-effective tool in the design of computer …
B. Kumar, E. S. Davidson
Pages 511-521
In this paper we describe a practical method of partial-match retrieval in very large data files. A binary code word, called a descriptor, is associated with each record of the file. These record descriptors are then used to
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John L. Pfaltz, William J. Berman, Edgar M. Cagley
Pages 522-528
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 538-539
