During the past decade, dramatic advances have been made in computer
technology. These advances are primarily as a result of the tremendous
progress in semiconductor technology, paced by planar processing and
LSI. Great strides have also been made in mass storage media, such as:
magnetic recording, bubble domains, charge-coupled devices,
beam-addressed storage, and optical storage. The mini- and microcomputer
revolution has led to a major broadening of the computer industry's
horizons and applications. Many writers have speculated on further
progress in the coming years; other have discussed the ultimate limits
to further progress in integrated electronic circuits towards higher
complexity, smaller size, and improved performance. This book is a
comprehensive bibliography of world literature in computer technology.
It is compiled to assist the workers in the field to compare their work
with that done by others. The book is divided into four chapters
designated A, B, C, and D. These chapters contain the literature on
logic, random-accessed memories, serial and block-oriented memories
(mass storage), and microprocessors/ microcomputers, respectively. Every
chapter cites a number of books and review articles; the review articles
are selected to lead the reader to the topic of that chapter. For easy
access to the needed references, each chapter is divided into many
sections and subsections (see Contents). A comprehensive subject index
is also given to assure easy access to the needed data. The literature
on the fabri- cation technology and properties of semiconducting devices
is the subject of a previous book (Al) by the author.