AN/USQ-17
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The
Overview
The machine was the size and shape of a refrigerator, about four feet high (roughly 1.20 meters), with a hinged lid for access. Shortly after completing the prototype design, Cray left to join
As part of the redesign it was decided to improve access, and the second version was designed to stand upright, like an old fashioned double-door refrigerator, about six feet tall (roughly 1.80 m). This new design was designated the AN/USQ-20.
Instructions were represented as 30-bit words, in the following format:
f 6 bits function code j 3 bits jump condition designator k 3 bits partial word designator b 3 bits which index register to use y 15 bits operand address in memory
Numbers were represented as 30-bit
The main memory was 32,768 = 32
The available processor registers were:
- One 30-bit accumulator (A).
- One 30-bit Q register (combined with A to give a total of 60 bits for the result of multiplication or the dividend in division).
- Seven 15-bit index registers (B1–B7).
The instruction format defined for the AN/USQ-17 marked the beginning of an instruction set which would be carried on, with many changes along the way, into later UNIVAC computers including the UNIVAC 1100/2200 series, which is still in use today[update].
- AN/USQ17, 30 bit, March 1958[3]
- CP-642[4] AKA[5][6] AN/USQ-20, 30 bit, 1960[7]
- AN/UYK-8, 30 bit, 1967[7][8]
- AN/UYK-7, 32 bit, 1971[7]
- AN/UYK-43, 32 bit, 1984[7]
- AN/UYK-20, 16 bit, 1973[7]
- AN/AYK-14, 16 bit, 1980[7]
- AN/UYK-44, 16 bit, 1984[7]
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-4628-1065-9.
- ISBN 978-0-471-47220-9.
- ^ David L. Boslaugh. "IEEE Global History Network - First-Hand:Building the U.S. Navy's First Seagoing Digital System - Chapter 4 of the Story of the Naval Tactical Data System". Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ David L. Boslaugh. "IEEE Global History Network - First-Hand:Testing the Naval Tactical Data System - Chapter 5 of the Story of the Naval Tactical Data System". Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ "UNIVAC-NTDS historical notes". Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ "Computer History Museum:Managing the Threat". Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g David L. Boslaugh. "IEEE Global History Network - First-Hand:Legacy of NTDS - Chapter 9 of the Story of the Naval Tactical Data System". Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ The Acquisition of Weapons Systems, 1974, pt. 7, p. 2761.
External links
- “M-460 Computer Characteristics” – PDF ... 32pp (1956)
- The Univac M-460 Computer – Paper by J. E. Thornton, M. Macaulay, and D. H. Toth, Remington Rand Univac Division of Sperry Rand (on-line version from Ed Thelen's Antique Computer Home Page)