The First Computers: History and Architectures

Rojas, Raul and Ulf Hashagen [eds]

ISBN 10: 0262681374 ISBN 13: 9780262681377

Editorial: MIT Press, 2002

Idioma: Ingl�s

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457 pp, index, plates, illustrations. Edge and corner wear. Remainder mark bottom edge. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and uncreased.

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T�tulo

The First Computers: History and Architectures

Editor

MIT Press

Fecha de publicaci�n

2002

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0262681374

ISBN 13

9780262681377

Encuadernaci�n

Trade Paperback

Estado

Very Good

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This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality. The book covers computers built in the United States, Germany, England, and Japan. It makes clear that similar concepts were often pursued simultaneously and that the early researchers explored many architectures beyond the von Neumann architecture that eventually became canonical. The contributors include not only historians but also engineers and computer pioneers. An introductory chapter describes the elements of computer architecture and explains why "being first" is even less interesting for computers than for other areas of technology. The essays contain a remarkable amount of new material, even on well-known machines, and several describe reconstructions of the historic machines. These investigations are of more than simply historical interest, for architectures designed to solve specific problems in the past may suggest new approaches to similar problems in today's machines.

Contributors
Titiimaea F. Ala'ilima, Lin Ping Ang, William Aspray, Friedrich L. Bauer, Andreas Brennecke, Chris P. Burton, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Paul Ceruzzi, I. Bernard Cohen, John Gustafson, Wilhelm Hopmann, Harry D. Huskey, Friedrich W. Kistermann, Thomas Lange, Michael S. Mahoney, R. B. E. Napper, Seiichi Okoma, Hartmut Petzold, Ra�l Rojas, Anthony E. Sale, Robert W. Seidel, Ambros P. Speiser, Frank H. Sumner, James F. Tau, Jan Van der Spiegel, Eiiti Wada, Michael R. Williams

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Ra�l Rojas is Professor of Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin.

Ulf Hashagen is affiliated with the Munich Center for the History and Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum.

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