Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Storage Systems -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the author -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Computer systems after WW II -- 1.2 High level programming languages - Fortran -- 1.2.1 A Programming Language - APL -- 1.2.2 COmmon Business Oriented Language - COBOL -- 1.2.3 IBM's PL/I programming language -- 1.2.4 Some early computer companies -- 1.3 Effect of data representation on storage space requirements -- 1.4 Basic computer arithmetic -- 1.5 Author's experience with IBM computers in 1970s -- 1.5.1 IBM computers at Univ. of Tehran and IBM World Trade Corp. in Tehran, Iran -- 1.5.2 My experiences with IBM computers at Tehran Regional Electric Company -- 1.5.3 Customer billing at TREC utility -- 1.5.4 My experience with IBM computers at UCLA -- 1.6 IBM's System 360 and its successors -- 1.6.1 US lawsuits against IBM and AT&amp -- T -- 1.6.2 Amdahl Corp. and plug compatible computers -- 1.6.3 Radio Corporation of America - RCA -- 1.6.4 Electronic Data Systems - EDS and Perot Systems -- 1.7 The IBM S/360 computer family -- 1.8 Operating systems associated with IBM mainframes -- 1.9 Early computer companies possibly competing with IBM -- 1.9.1 Burroughs + UNIVAC = UNISYS -- 1.10 My experience at Burroughs Corp. -- 1.10.1 NCR - National Cash Register Corp. -- 1.10.2 Control Data Corporation -- 1.10.3 Honeywell Corp. -- 1.10.4 Hewlett-Packard - HP Corp. -- 1.10.5 Digital Equipment Corp - DEC -- 1.11 Computer company revenue rankings -- 1.12 Computer structures book -- 1.13 Computer family architectures - CFA -- 1.14 Virtual memory and page replacement algorithms -- 1.15 Memory space fragmentation and dynamic storage allocation -- 1.15.1 Page replacement algorithms -- 1.15.2 Simplified analysis of a paging system -- 1.16 Analysis of thrashing in 2-phase locking - 2PL systems…”

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