The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report...
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starting in 1953. In October 1946, work began under Maurice Wilkes on EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), which subsequently became...
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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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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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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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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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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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was written for the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). EDSAC was one of the first stored-program computers, with memory that could...
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History of computing hardware (section EDSAC)
stored-program computer. EDSAC ran its first programs on 6Â May 1949, when it calculated a table of squares and a list of prime numbers.The EDSAC also served as...
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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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