The control data STAR-100 paging station
William C. Hohn, Philip Douglas Jones · 1973
The Control Data STAR-100 is a large capacity, high speed, virtual memory computer system whose input/output for storage and access is managed by "Stations" separate from the main computer. This modularizes the total computing function into independent, asynchronous tasks which operate in parallel with the central processor. The approach also simplifies the central processor design and provides for fan out to a large number of storage devices and terminals. A station consists of an SCU (station control unit) and an SBU (station buffer unit). An SCU is a mini-computer with small drum and display console existing with power supplies and cooling in its own cabinet. An SBU consists of 64K (K=1024) bytes of high bandwidth core memory.