Chapter 16. Hardware issues

Much of the discussions and concepts contained in this section are based upon real systems and experiments conducted by associates of the author. Rather than rewrite these experiments, the authors of the papers describing the experiments allowed the author to excerpt material and descriptions. For this a very substantial debt of gratitude is owed to L. D. Anderson, T. O. Wolff, L. J. Schlecta, B. R. Manning, and R. C. DeWard for permission to use their works.

Much of the discussions and concepts contained in the subsections 16.3, 16.4, and 16.5 are based upon real systems and experiments conducted by associates of the author. Rather than rewrite these experiments, the authors of the papers describing the experiments allowed the author to excerpt material and descriptions. For this a very substantial debt of gratitude is owed to L. D. Anderson, T. O. Wolff, L. J. Schlecta, B. R. Manning, and R. C. DeWard for permission to use their works [Anderson 79a] and [Anderson 79b]. Portions of subsection 16.3 are taken from [Thurber 77]. Lastly portions of subsection 16.7 are taken from [Thurber 80a] and [Thurber 81].

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