April 1987 - Vol. 30 No. 4
Features
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…
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…
New techniques for computing multicolored polygonal masks for image analysis and computer vision applications are presented. The procedures do not require random access…