The memory bus monitor

Abstract

The memory bus monitor was designed to assist in program development on dedicated computers. A dedicated computer is defined here to be one that is used for only one major application and is available to the programmer in blocks of time as needed to complete the development and checkout of his problem. Because of high cost, few large scale computers can be operated in this manner. However, many medium scale and virtually all minicomputers (including airborne and other process control computers) are operated this way, at least when assembly language code is being written. Most systems classified as real-time also fall in this category.