Selecting a Military Computer Architecture
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Computer
- Vol. 10 (10), 16-23
- https://doi.org/10.1109/c-m.1977.217522
Abstract
Selecting or even designing a computer architecture is at best as much a black art as a science. The problem is particularly difficult when one tries to choose an architecture meant to serve a very broad range of users whose present and future requirements are poorly understood. This article describes the activities of a joint Army/Navy Selection Committee, which was charged with the task of selecting a single computer architecture to be used as the basis for a new military computer family. The range of applications for military computers is broad and ill defined; how the committee tried to cope with this problem should be of interest to others who are interested in measuring, designing, or selecting computer architectures.Keywords
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