The lexical design of a digital computer for a large-scale real-time application

THE Lincoln Laboratory and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) have, during the past 3 years, worked out the design for a new digital computer which is the central component of a large-scale real-time system. In this system, data from many sources are fed automatically into the computer where they are processed under programmed control. A complete compilation of the real-time situation is made by the computer and presented to operators by means of a special display system. The computer automatically generates control commands for the external environment in response to corrections and command information fed into it by the operators.