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MINIPAC是一台新型FIELDATA指揮控制用的小型計算机,它是由美国陆军电子学研究与发展实驗室設計和发展的。其基本設計思想是,計算机在极恶劣的战地条件下具有高速度和高的可靠性,不一定花費很高的費用。因此,主要設計指标是单位费用所得的計算能力尽可能地高。其結果是:MINIPAC以每秒2兆周的时钟頻率工作,仅用了一种型号的晶体管,便于携带,井可由电池供电。整个机器大約有18000个电子元件,消耗功率不超过25瓦。在容量力16,288字的主存貯器中,采用了結实的、插入积木形式的磁致伸縮延迟线,每个插件含有128字。包括取指令和操作数的时間在内,MINIPAC的最佳工作速度:加法为60微秒,乘法和除法为737微秒。MINIPAC的設計目的是为陆军提供一种工作范围很广的战地計算机。由于具有实时的工作能力,MINIPAC可单独做为数据处理机、系統的一个組成部分、系統的控制中心使用,这些系統诸如,雷达、导彈控制和检驗,指挥和控制,目标定位,軌道分析,音响测距,通信信息控制,脱线轉換,等等。MINIPAC是FIELDATA計算机族的一系,它采用FIELDATA代碼、指令、字的結构和系統概念。就因为它具有这样的共用性,所以在人員培訓、程序設計、电气連接和邏輯上的相互联系等方面均获得經济和时間的收益。共用性允許相互交換計算机程序,以便
MINIPAC is a small FIELDATA command-and-control mini-computer designed and developed by the Army Electronics Research and Development Laboratory. The basic design idea is that the computer has high speed and high reliability under extremely adverse field conditions, and does not necessarily cost a lot of money. Therefore, the main design measure is that the unit cost can be calculated as high as possible. As a result, the MINIPAC operates at 2 megacycles per second, using only one type of transistor for easy portability and battery operation. The entire machine has approximately 18,000 electronic components and consumes no more than 25 watts of power. In main memory, which has a capacity of 16,288 words, a sturdy, magnetostrictive delay line inserted in the form of blocks is used, each plug-in containing 128 words. Including fetch instructions and operands, MINIPAC’s optimum operating speed is 60 μs for addition and 737 μs for multiplication and division. MINIPAC is designed to provide the Army with a wide range of field computers. With real-time capabilities, MINIPAC can be used alone as a data processor, as an integral part of a system, as a control center for systems such as radar, missile control and inspection, command and control, target positioning, orbit analysis , Sound ranging, communication information control, off-line conversion, and so on. MINIPAC is a family of FIELDATA computer families that employs the FIELDATA code, instructions, word structure, and system concepts. Because of its commonalities, it benefits both economically and timeably in terms of personnel training, programming, electrical connectivity and logically interconnectedness. Commonality allows mutual exchange of computer programs so that