History and Architectures
MIT Press
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, Raúl 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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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, Raúl 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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