• Language processors and
utilities
and
applications
software for both commercial and
scientific
users.
• Peripheral equipment includes:
• Card equipment: Reading speeds up
to
1500 cards
per minute; punching speed of 100 cards per min-
ute; intermixed binary and
EBCDIC
card codes.
• Line printers: Fully buffered with speeds
up
to
1250 lines per minute; 132 print positions with
character
sets
containing
64 or 95
characters.
• Magnetic
tape
units:
9-track
systems, single or
dual density (1600 or
800/1600
BPI), industry-
compatible; high-speed, automatic loading units
operating
at
125 inches per second with
trans-
fer rates up to
200,000
bytes per second; and
at
75 inches per second with transfer
rates
up
to
120,000
bytes per second.
• Rapid Access Data
(RAD)
and disk files:
RAD
capacity
of
2.9
million bytes, with a transfer
rate
of
750,000
bytes per second; disk
capa-
cities
in increments of
86
mi
Ilion bytes (format-
ted) per unit with a transfer
rate
of
806,000
bytes
per second, and in increments of 49 million bytes
per unit with a transfer
rate
of
312,500
bytes
per second.
• Keyboard printers:
10
characters
per second.
• Data communications equipment: Complete
line
of
character-oriented,
message-oriented, and
procedure-oriented
equipment to
connect
remote
user terminals (including remote batch)
to
the
computer
center
via
common
carrier
lines
and
local terminals
directly.
STANDARD
AND
OPTIONAL
FEATURES
A basic system has the following standard features:
• A basic processor
(BP)
that
includes:
• Full instruction set
• Memory map with access protection
• Register blocks
(4)
• Multiplexor
Input/Output
Processor (MIOP) with:
• 16 subchannels
•
1-
or
4-byte
interface
•
Input/Output
Adapter
•
Two
memory units
that
include:
• Dual port access
~
Memory write lock protection
• A system control processor
that
inc I udes:
• Real-time clocks
(4)
• Internal interrupts (14)
• Power
fail-safe
detection
• External Direct
Input/Output
Interface
(DIO)
•
External Control Subsystem
(ECS)
• System Control Panel
(SCP)
• Configuration Control Panel (CCP)
• Local
and
remote assist
facility
• Error
detecti
on faci I i ti es
• Diagnostics
A system may have
the
following optional features:
•
BP
options:
•
Up
to
48
external priority interrupts (in groups
of
12)
• Memory options:
• Memory expansion up to 256K words
•
Up
to 4 additional
access
ports (in sets of 2).
•
Input/
Output
opti ons:
•
Multiple
I/O
cluster/.
•
Up
to 3 additional MIOPs,
each
with
16
sub-
channel s, per
cI
uster.
•
One
Input/Output
Adapter (for one MIOP)
per cluster.
•
One
Rotating Memory Processor
(RMP)
per
cluster.
GENERAL-PURPOSE
FEATURES
General-purpose
computing
applications
are
characterized
by emphasis on computation and internal
data
handling.
tThe
aggregate
of processor clusters is restricted by the
max-
imum
memory port limitation of 6.
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