August 1986 - Vol. 29 No. 8
Features
Why Ada is not just another programming language
Ada's importance goes far beyond its initial limited goals. The worldwide interest in the usage of Ada is one of many reasons for its uniqueness.
The Department of Defense software initiative—a status report
The Initiative is a comprehensive effort to address major software engineering issues in both the military and private industry.
Self-assessment procedure XV: a self-assessment procedure dealing with file processing
A self-assessment procedure dealing with file processing
Evaluating two massively parallel machines
Two radically different parallel computers prompt a debate about the best parallel architectures and may mark the commercial viability of parallelism on the supercomputer…
Toward real-time performance benchmarks for Ada
Benchmarks are developed to measure the Ada notion of time, the Ada features believed important to real-time performance, and other time-related features that are not…
Comments on “Grosch’s law re-revisited: CPU power and the cost of computation”
Taking Ein-Dor's recent reevaluation of Grosch's law one step further, the authors find evidence of different slopes for different classes of computers and the utility of…
GRAP—a language for typesetting graphs
The authors describe a system that makes it easy and convenient to describe graphs and to include them as an integral part of the document formatting process.
Computerized performance monitoring systems: use and abuse
An exploratory study of computerized performance monitoring and control systems reveals both positive and negative effects. Responses of 50 clerical workers from 2…
The orders of equidistribution of subsequences of some asymptotically random sequences
The orders of equidistribution of subsequences of every nth term of the asymptotically random sequence given by Tootill, Robinson, and Eagle [5], and of six other…