Accession Number:

ADA065934

Title:

Micro Implemented Loader--An Advanced Loader Facility for a Microprogrammable Computer.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL SURFACE WEAPONS CENTER DAHLGREN LAB VA

Personal Author(s):

• Gass,Alban P.

Report Date:

1978-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

The micro implemented loader MIL represents an advance in computer program loading technology for microprogrammable computer architecture. The MIL facility replaces, with a simpler approach, the complex system software traditionally associated with this function. It provides dynamic loading, linking, and delinking of computer modules and supports object library functions with a minimum of user and implementor effort. MIL takes advantage of special data structures and firmware to achieve its efficiency. The loader was developed and implemented at NSWC on a Nanodata QM-1 computer in less than 200 micro locations. Author

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
• *MICROPROGRAMMING
• *ADDRESSING
• MODULES(ELECTRONICS)
• DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS
• DATA LINKS
• INTERCOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
• HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE