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NORD-50 does not have an I/O system or interrupt system by itself. This implies that NORD-10/S submits jobs to NORD-50 for execution in batches and acts as a system supervisor running the operating system [[SINTRAN III/VS]] and the [[NORD-50 monitor]].
NORD-50 does not have an I/O system or interrupt system by itself. This implies that NORD-10/S submits jobs to NORD-50 for execution in batches and acts as a system supervisor running the operating system [[SINTRAN III/VS]] and the [[NORD-50 monitor]].
In a NORD-50 computer system, the NORD-10/S has the following functions:
*Supervision and synchronization of the NORD-50s in the system.
*Running the operating system, SINTRAN III.
*Generating NORD-50 executable machine code via NORD-50 assembler or FORTRAN compiler.
*Being the I/O system for the NORD-50s performing I/O transfer to / from the NORD-50 memory.
==CPU==
==CPU==
The NORD-50 CPU has a word length of 32 bits.
The NORD-50 CPU has a word length of 32 bits.

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The NORD-50 computer system is a completely integrated system of NORD-10/S and NORD-50 CPUs. The I/O system, file system and operating system are common to both processors.

The NORD-50 CPU is designed to be a fast floating point processor which is a total slave to the NORD-10/S.[1]

NORD-50 does not have an I/O system or interrupt system by itself. This implies that NORD-10/S submits jobs to NORD-50 for execution in batches and acts as a system supervisor running the operating system SINTRAN III/VS and the NORD-50 monitor.

In a NORD-50 computer system, the NORD-10/S has the following functions:

  • Supervision and synchronization of the NORD-50s in the system.
  • Running the operating system, SINTRAN III.
  • Generating NORD-50 executable machine code via NORD-50 assembler or FORTRAN compiler.
  • Being the I/O system for the NORD-50s performing I/O transfer to / from the NORD-50 memory.

CPU

The NORD-50 CPU has a word length of 32 bits.

Address space

The NORD-50 has a 4 megabytes address space.

Performance

Whetstone results [2]
MWIPS MWIPS double precision Language Date
0.531 0.451 Fortran 1975

References and sources