Item #M10856 ACM Computing Surveys volume 4 numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, March 1972; June 1972; September 1972; December 1972. Full year 1972, 4 individual separate issues. ACM Computing Surveys.

ACM Computing Surveys volume 4 numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, March 1972; June 1972; September 1972; December 1972. Full year 1972, 4 individual separate issues.

ACM Association for Computing Machinery, the survey and tutorial journal of the ACM; 1970; pp1-260 inclusive, double-column text, photographs, illustrations, references.

Condition: Very Good overall, all four individual issues, light rubbing to covers, turquoise-blue and white covers. Bindings are tight, pages clean and unmarked; mailing labels removed from rear covers.

Keywords: rotating storage devices, computers in the 1970s, 1970s computers, history of programming languages, metalanguages, interpreter-interpreters, proofs about programs, Vienna Definition Language, data processing, library routines, statistical compiler

Price: $40.00

Item Description

Volume 4 Number 1, March 1972 -- A Note on Paging Drum Efficiency (Peter J Denning); The Vienna Definition Language (VDL) (Peter Wegner);

Volume 4 number 2, June 1972 -- A Survey of Statistical Packages (Schucany; Shannon; Minton); What Machines Can and Cannot Do (Nievergelt and Farrar); An Assessment of Techniques for Proving Program Correctness (Elspas, Levitt, Waldinger, Waksman);

volume 4 number 3, September 1972 -- Linkers and Loaders (Presser and White); Incomputability (Hoare and Allison); Some Deadlock Properties of COmputer Systems (Holt)

Volume 4 number 4, December 1972 -- Data Communication Control Procedures (Stutzman); A Programmer's View of Automata (Barnes); Staffing the MIS Function (Willoughby).