Byte: The Small Systems Journal (August 1979)

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_{Cover of the August 1979 issue of Byte}

Byte is one of the oldest computer magazines. In 1979 it had already been around for several years and the original IBM PC was still a few years away. Yet there were still plenty of 'small systems' to cover. The August 1979 issue includes:

Foreground

Anyone Know The Real Time? - A guide to real-time processing and building a real-time clock for your computer.

Model Of The Brain, Part 3: Comparison of Brain and Model - The third part of this series shows how the Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Computer can give rise to perceptual and cognitive phenomena.

Nature Of Robots, Part 3: A Closer Look at Human Behavior - A lok at modeling human reflexes.

The Design Of An M6800 LISP Interpreter - The first language I used in a college class was Scheme which is a derivative of Lisp.

LISP Applications In Boolean Logic - Using LISP to imitate combinatorial circuits.

An Overview Of Long Division - Long division from a programming perspective.

_{Table of Contents from the August 1979 issue of Byte}

Background

An Overview Of LISP - An introduction to LISP, a language commonly used for artificial intelligence.

LISP Based Systems For Education - Using LISP in an educational setting.

The Lambdino Storage Management System - Lambdino is a statically scoped dialect of LISP.

Pattern-Directed Invocation Languages - A category of languages implemented using LISP that focus on retrieving information by pattern.

Exploring TRS-80 Graphics - Controlling graphics with machine language on the TRS-80.

A Mathematician's View Of LISP - Some advantages of LISP include mobility of data, modularity of function, declarative programming, metalinguistics, and more.

A Preview Of The Motorola 68000 - An early look at the 68000, the CPU that would ultimately power the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, and be used to power numerous other computers and applications.

LISP Based Symbolic Math Systems - Some symbolic math examples using LISP.

Nucleus

Editorial: Returning to the Tower of Babel or ... - This is the third year in a row that Byte has featured a language in the August issue. This year it's LISP and previous years included APL and Pascal.

LISP Notes - Symbolic expressions and M-Expressions in LISP.

BYTE News - Bubble memory for personal computers, more large companies to enter personal computer market including RCA, Hewlet Packard, and Zenith, digitized music coming soon via PCM, and more.

Programming Quickies - Implementing a switch like construct in assembly and a memory test program.

Book Reviews - A review of Practical Microcomputer Programming: The Z-80 by W. J. Weller.

What's New? - A brief look at new products including SuperRAM (an S-100 bus 64K memory expansion board), new software for Computalker speech synthesizer, Programming the 6502 book, ZASSEMBL Z-80 assembler package, and more.