NAREC Coding System(ID:6889/nar003)

Navy Ordinance Lab Autocoder 

for Naval Research Electronic Computer

high level autocode for the NAREC computer
Places Hardware:
  • NAREC Naval Ordnance Lab
Related languages
NAREC Coding System => NABUR   Port
References:
  • [ONR] A General Description of the NAREC. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Operational Research Branch, Applications Research Division July 1955. view details
  • Programming Manual for the NAREC. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Operational Research Branch, Applications Research Division November 1955. view details External link: Archived copy at CBI in Government Box 13
  • Solution of Systems of Simultaneous Linear Equations on the NAREC. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Research Computing Center, Applied Mathematics Branch, Mechanics Division October 1959. view details External link: Archived copy at CBI in Government Box 13
  • MASON, R. M. A programming glossary for NAREC users. US Naval Research Lab., Wash. D. C., NRL Report 5779, 1962 view details
  • Hanlon, A. G. review of Mason 1960 view details Abstract: This glossary is precisely what its title implies, i.e., a programming glossary for the NAREC (Naval Research Electronic Computer) user. The author does not pretend to offer it as a universal dictionary to the computing world.

    A brief and exceedingly limited sampling of four other glossaries, in comparison to the NAREC glossary, indicates that it contains a few more terms than the average. The larger quantity however, may be a direct result of the inclusion of specialized NAREC terminology. Forty-three non-NAREC related terms were selected from one alphabetic section and compared with the terms contained in the same alphabetic section of the other glossaries. Approximately fifty percent of the terms were contained in at least one or more of the other glossaries. It is difficult to assess the value of the terms unique to the NAREC glossary; however they appear to be useful in general.

    The author's claim to a novel index design (a modified thesaurus) may be questioned on the basis of similar relationships appearing in other glossaries, and in particular the glossary compiled by M. Grems, et al, of IBM. A bibliography of references to other glossaries would have been helpful.

    The glossaries consulted for the purpose of this review were:
    1) A Recensed Glossary of Computer Engineering and Programming Terminology, Martin H. Weik, Ballistic Research Laboratories, March 1961.
    2) IBM Glossary for Information Processin~Preliminary
    Edition, M. Grems, R. W. Bemer ~ F. A. Williams, IBM, August 1961.
    3) Glossary of Computer Terminology, Computer Department, General Electric.
    4) Standard EDP Reports Glossary, Auerbach Corporation, May 1962.

          in ACM Computing Reviews 4(06) November-December 1963 view details