1985 11.03 1987

Vol.11 n°3 (#113) march 1986

Vol.11 n°3 (#113) march 1986

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p.6 EDITORIAL: Sharing (p.159 in reprint volume 11)

p.6 EDITORIAL: Sharing (p.159 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Michael Swaine] #Edito

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

ARTICLES

p.24 MATH: A Variable Metric Minimizer (p.168 in reprint volume 11)

p.24 MATH: A Variable Metric Minimizer (p.168 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Joe Marasco]

Unconstrained minimization seeks the minimum of a function regardless of its form: polynomial, transcendental, or weird.

p.36 PASCAL: Concurrency and Turbo Pascal (p.175 in reprint volume 11)

p.36 PASCAL: Concurrency and Turbo Pascal (p.175 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Ernest E. Bergmann]

Coroutines are an important feature of Modula-2 and Ada; here is a straightforward approach to implementing coroutines in Turbo Pascal.

p.40 FUTURE PROGRAMMING: The Problems of Parallelism (p.178 in reprint volume 11)

p.40 FUTURE PROGRAMMING: The Problems of Parallelism (p.178 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Michael Swaine]

Will the future be parallel?

p.44 MS DOS: Speeding MS DOS Execution (p.180 in reprint volume 11)

p.44 MS DOS: Speeding MS DOS Execution (p.180 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Gregg Weissman]

Inspired by Dave Cortesi's puzzles regarding MS DOS execution speed, the author interrogated the operating system for the solution.

p.50 PORTABILITY: Automatic Porting Between Pascal Dialects (p.184 in reprint volume 11)

p.50 PORTABILITY: Automatic Porting Between Pascal Dialects (p.184 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Michael J. Sorens]

This article presents a proven technique for automating the task of porting your programs from one Pascal to another.

p.108 PORTABILITY: COM: An 8080 Simulator for the MC68000 (p.215 in reprint volume 11)

p.108 PORTABILITY: COM: An 8080 Simulator for the MC68000 (p.215 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Jim Cathey]

COLUMNS

COLUMNS

p.14 C CHEST: The Last of the Shell Support Routines (p.163 in reprint volume 11)

p.14 C CHEST: The Last of the Shell Support Routines (p.163 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Allen Holub]

Allen wraps up the DOS shell with the last of the support routines.

p.122 THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE: Square Roots on the NS32000 (p.224 in reprint volume 11)

p.122 THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE: Square Roots on the NS32000 (p.224 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Richard Campbell]

National Semiconductor's 320XX processors were designed with high-level language compilation in mind. Code and benchmarks in C and 320XX assembly language show some interesting differences.

FORUM

FORUM

p.8 LETTERS: Comment by you (p.160 in reprint volume 11)

p.8 LETTERS: Comment by you (p.160 in reprint volume 11)

p.8 CARTOON: Parallel Processing (p.160 in reprint volume 11)

p.8 CARTOON: Parallel Processing (p.160 in reprint volume 11)

[author : Rand Renfroe]

PROGRAMMERS' SERVICES

PROGRAMMERS' SERVICES

p.124 OF INTEREST: New products of interest to programmers (p.226 in reprint volume 11)

p.124 OF INTEREST: New products of interest to programmers (p.226 in reprint volume 11)

p.128 ADVERTISER INDEX: Where to find that ad (not in reprint volume 11)

p.128 ADVERTISER INDEX: Where to find that ad (not in reprint volume 11)