Time-Sharing a Disk Memory for On-Line Spectrum Accumulation from Many Nuclear Pulse-Height Analyzers

1 January 1970

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Vol. 17 (1) , 390-397
https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.1970.4325602

Abstract

Several pulse-height analyzers time-share a large disk memory for on-line accumulation of sorted spectra. The system is controlled by a PDP-8 computer which performs a two-level hardware-software sort on the data in real time. The computer dynamically allocates storage to incoming events and schedules disk accesses to achieve high sorting rates under a variety of counting loads.

Keywords

TIME SHARING COMPUTER SYSTEMS
MAGNETIC ANALYSIS
MAGNETIC SEPARATION
LABORATORIES
COMPUTER INTERFACES
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
DATA ACQUISITION
TELEPRINTING
HARDWARE
NUCLEAR ELECTRONICS

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