Communications of the ACM

Authors

Rosalie Steier
Page 275

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President's letter

Paul Abrahams
Pages 276-277

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ACM forum

Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 278-ff.

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Programming pearls

Jon Bentley, David Gries
Pages 284-290

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Case study: IBM's system/360-370 architecture

The architecture of IBM's System/360-370 series of compatible processors is one of the most durable artifacts of the computer age. Through two major revisions of the product line and 23 years of technological change, it has remained … David Gifford, Alfred Spector
Pages 291-307

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Attributes of the performance of central processing units: a relative performance prediction model

Using readily available data on CPU characteristics—main memory size, cache memory size, number of channels, and machine cycle time—it is possible to predict relative CPU performance for a wide range of machines. Statistical  … Phillip Ein-Dor, Jacob Feldmesser
Pages 308-317

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Computing multi-colored polygonal masks in pipeline architecture and its application to automated visual inspection

New techniques for computing multicolored polygonal masks for image analysis and computer vision applications are presented. The procedures do not require random access of the image memory. They are based on efficient generation … Jorge L. C. Sanz, Its'hak Dinstein, Dragutin Petkovic
Pages 318-329

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