Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133943023
Author: Robert W. Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON
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Capabilities of Backus’s 701 Speedcoding system:
John Backus developed the Speedcoding system for IBM 701 in 1954. The capacities of Backus’s 701 Speedcoding system are as follows:
- The Speedcoding system is an interpretive system mainly focused on simulating floating-point operations.
- The implementation of Speedcoding system in IBM’s 701 virtually converted it into floating point calculator.
- Speedcoding system contains instructions for the basic arithmetic operations on floating point data (+, -, *, /).
- It also provides operators to find square root, sine, tangent, exponent and logarithm.
- It contains conditional and unconditional branches.
- It provides convenient means for inputting data to the system and giving back outputs.
- Speedcoding includes the address format of automatic incrementing address registers and because of this; matrix multiplication could be easily completed in 12 Speedcoding instructions...
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