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SPUR(ID:127/spu001)

Floating point package 

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Country: United States
Designed 1956
Genus: Symbolic assembly packages
Sammet category: Excluded from Sammet

for Single Precision Unpacked Rounded Floating Point Package

Fast floating point package developed by Barnet at Convair, San Diego January 1956, ported to the IBM 650 by Boeing Wichita, August 1956

Hardware:
Related languages
SPUR → FLIP/SPUR   Incorporated into
References:
  • Barton, L (1956) Barton, L "SPUR - Single Precision Unpacked Rounded Floating Point Package for ERA-1103 Computers" Convair report ZM-527 , 29 August 1956 Extract: SPUR Detailed Specifications
  • Bemer (1957) Bemer, R. W. "The Status of Automatic Programming for Scientific Problems" Abstract Extract: Summary Extract: IT, FORTRANSIT, SAP, SOAP, SOHIO
          in [Armour] (1957) "Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Computer Applications Symposium" , Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 1957
  • Bemer (1958) [Bemer, RW] [State of ACM automatic coding library August 1958]
          in [Armour] (1957) "Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Computer Applications Symposium" , Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 1957
  • [Bemer] (1959) [Bemer, RW] [State of ACM automatic coding library May 1959] Extract: Obiter Dicta
          in [ACM] (1959) [ACM] CACM 2(05) May 1959
  • Carr (1959) Carr, John W III; "Computer Programming" volume 2, chapter 2, pp115-121
          in Crabbe et al (1957) E. M. Crabbe, S. Ramo, and D. E. Wooldridge (eds.) "Handbook of Automation, Computation, and Control," John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1959.
  • Bemer, R (1962) Bemer, R "ISO TC97/SC5/WGA(1) Survey of Programming Languages and Processors" December 1962
          in [ACM] (1963) [ACM] CACM 6(03) (Mar 1963)
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