Factors impacting on the evolution of military computers
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This paper will trace Army experience in ADP for the combat environment, with emphasis on the role of software as a factor in influencing computer organization and design. Early Army activity on militarized computers resulted in the Fieldata family of computers, a modular hierarchy of ADP equipment. Subsequently, software considerations and the evolution of functional requirements resulted in extended use of commercially available computers mounted in vehicles. The balance between central electronic logic and peripheral capability is central to the design of militarized computers, but constraints of size, weight and ruggedness have greatly limited the processing capability of fieldable peripheral equipment. The systems acquisition process also impacts on the available characteristics of militarized computers.
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June 1973
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ISBN:9781450379168
DOI:10.1145/1499586
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