The first computers

History and architecture

Ulf Hashagen, Raul Rojas

458 pages, parution le 26/09/2002

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Résumé

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.

Contents I. History, reconstructions, architectures II. The American scene III. The German scene IV. The British scene V. Early Japanese computers

L'auteur - Ulf Hashagen

Editor

L'auteur - Raul Rojas

University of Halle, Germany.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Ulf Hashagen, Raul Rojas
Parution	26/09/2002
Nb. de pages	458
Format	15 x 22,8
Couverture	Broché
Poids	745g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262681377
ISBN13	978-0-262-68137-7