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CS252: Reading Assignment #2
Due Wednesday, January 25th

The reading assignment for Wednesday, 1/25 for CS 252 is to read the following papers (they are scanned in pdf format):
  1. A new approach to the functional design of a digital computer, R.S. Barton, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 19, 1961, pp393-396.
  2. Design of the B5000 system, W. Lonergan, P. King, Datamation, Vol. 7 No. 5, May 1961, pp28-32.
    For further detail, see also B5000 Descriptor
  3. Architecture of the IBM System/360, G. M. Amdahl, G. A. Blaauw, F. P. Brooks Jr., IBM J. Res. Develop. Vol. 8, No. 2, 1964. An introduction to the 360 architecture is available from bitsavers.org: Mirrored HERE.
You must also:

Write one paragraph about paper #1, one paragraph comparing the systems in papers #2 and #3. To be completely clear: this is 2 paragraphs.

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