(~4) ⢠Recent Books On Microprogrammin$ I i Members of SIGMICRO and readers of the SIGMICRO Newsletter are encouraged to submit reviews of current literature concerned with microprogramming. following two books have been brought to our attention. FOUNDATIONS OF MICROPROGRAMMING: Architecture, Software, and Applications. College The By Ashok K. Agrawala, Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, Park, Maryland, and Tomlinson G. Rauscher NCR Corp., Advanced Development OH. Academic Press, 1975, $15.50 Dept., Cambridge, This book examines hardware and software of experimental and commercial microprogrammable machines. vertical and diagonal simulators, Topics included in the 426 page book one, horizontal, languages, (partially encoded) microinstruc~ion machines, and applications. and their implementation, The final chapter surveys the past, present, and conjectures the future of microprogramming. Alan B. Salisbury, U. S. Army 1976 (paperback) $8.75. While MICROPROGP~AMMABLE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES, Electronics Command. Elsevier Computer Science Series, This book covers dynamic microprogramming the first two chapters are of a general nature, devoted to case studies. These include the: on a variety of machines. the remainder of the book is Microdata 3200, Interdata 8/32, 21MX, Intel Burroughs B/700, Nanodata QM-i, Control Data 5600, Hewlett-Packard 3000, Western Digital MCPi600, and others.
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