EDSAC 2 was an early vacuum tube computer (operational in 1958), the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). It was the...
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numbers. EDSAC was finally shut down on 11 July 1958, having been superseded by EDSAC 2, which remained in use until 1965. As soon as EDSAC was operational...
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inspired the world's first business computer, LEO. It was replaced by EDSAC 2, the first microcoded and bit-sliced computer, in 1958. In 1961, David...
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The version for the EDSAC 2 was devised by David Hartley of University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in 1961. Known as EDSAC 2 Autocode, it was a...
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version for the EDSAC 2 was devised by Douglas Hartree of University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in 1961. Known as EDSAC 2 Autocode, it was...
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Maurice Wilkes (section EDSAC)
designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who invented microprogramming...
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History of computing hardware (section EDSAC)
manufacturing company J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. EDSAC 1 was finally shut down on 11 July 1958, having been superseded by EDSAC 2 which stayed in use until 1965. The...
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developed by David Wheeler while working on the pioneering EDSAC machine in the 1950s. EDSAC had not been built with subroutines in mind, and lacked a...
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computationally intensive. In the early 1960s Peter Swinnerton-Dyer used the EDSAC-2 computer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory to calculate...
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Atlas (computer) (section Titan and Atlas 2)
only two machines which are really fast are the Cambridge EDSAC 2 and the Manchester Mark 2, although both are still very slow compared with the fastest...
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Computing Engine Colossus computer CTL Modular One Digico Micro 16 EDSAC EDSAC 2 Elliott Brothers (computer company) Elliott 152 Elliott 503 Elliott...
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University Information Services department. EDSAC computer, 1949 - a pioneering stored-program computer EDSAC 2 computer, 1965 - first computer to have a...
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modern computer – Maurice Wilkes EDSAC 2 the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator or EDSAC. It was the first computer to have...
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field included work on the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) in the 1950s and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (published 1994). Along...
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electronic computer. The vast increase in computing power that EDSAC and its successor EDSAC 2 supplied, contributed to the winning of three Nobel Prizes...
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Bit slicing (redirect from 2-bit architecture)
very-large-scale integration circuits). The first bit-sliced machine was EDSAC 2, built at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in 1956–1958...
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developing the first programming language "Autocode", and its compiler for the EDSAC 2 computer, for which he was awarded a PhD degree in 1963. His thesis was...
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computer, built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Company of Manchester. 1958: EDSAC 2, the first computer to have a microprogrammed (Microcode) control unit...
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(link) "COMPUTERS, OVERSEAS: 4. Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, G 1, G 1a, G 2, and G 3. Gottingen, Germany". Digital Computer Newsletter. 10 (3): 15–16...
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applications. The prototype LEO I was modelled closely on the Cambridge EDSAC. Its construction was overseen by Oliver Standingford, Raymond Thompson...
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Two's complement (redirect from 2's complement notation)
EDVAC proposal for an electronic stored-program digital computer. The 1949 EDSAC, which was inspired by the First Draft, used two's complement representation...
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Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory and contributed to the development of the EDSAC 2 computer. In the early 1960s, he was leader of software development in...
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Largest known prime number (redirect from 2^43112609 − 1)
Time. Time Inc. October 29, 2008. Archived from the original on November 2, 2008. Retrieved January 17, 2012. "GIMPS by Mersenne Research, Inc". mersenne...
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graphical computer game, OXO, a version of noughts and crosses, in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge. Douglas was born on 21 May 1921 in...
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building, is decorated with a paper-tape representation of the original EDSAC "Initial Orders" (boot program) written by David Wheeler and of a program...
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America, but the von Neumann report inspired the construction of the E.D.S.A.C. (electronic delay-storage automatic calculator) in Cambridge (see p....
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The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (section Chapter 7 - Examples of programs for EDSAC)
The book was based on the authors' experiences constructing and using EDSAC, one of the first practical computers in the world. It was the first book...
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far. — British newspaper The Star in a June 1949 news article about the EDSAC computer, long before the era of the personal computers. In the history...
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his team constructed EDSAC. A filing cabinet of punched tape held the subroutine library for this computer. Programs for EDSAC consisted of a main program...
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of computers. Lyons's LEO I computer, modelled closely on the Cambridge EDSAC of 1949, became operational in April 1951 and ran the world's first routine...
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