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| 36 | -- | 44 | Tom Jones. Engineering Design of the Convex C2 |
| 45 | -- | 52 | Melvin C. August, Gerald M. Brost, Christopher C. Hsiung, Alan J. Schiffleger. Cray X-MP: The Birth of a Supercomputer |
| 55 | -- | 64 | Harvey G. Cragon, W. Joe Watson. A Retrospective Analysis: The TI Advanced Scientific Computer |
| 66 | -- | 76 | Benjamin Maytal, Sorin Iacobovici, Donald B. Alpert, Dan Biran, Jonathan Levy II, Sidi Yom Tov. Design Considerations for a General-Pupose Microprocessor (NS32532) |
| 78 | -- | 91 | Ruby B. Lee. Precision Architecture |
| 92 | -- | 97 | Ware Myers. Software Pivotal to Strategic Defense |
| 98 | -- | 0 | Edward A. Parrish. Breaking into Computers is a Crime, Pure and Simple |
| 98 | -- | 0 | Behrooz Parhami. The Opposite of Common Sense |
| 110 | -- | 111 | Sunii Mehta. Computer Society Windowing Standards Group Forming |
| 110 | -- | 111 | Sunii Mehta. Technical Background on the X Window System |