EDSAC 2
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edsac-2-166-5204154
title:
EDSAC 2
text:
EDSAC 2 was an early vacuum tube computer, the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit-slice hardware architecture. First calculations were performed on the incomplete machine in 1957. Calculations about elliptic curves performed on EDSAC-2 in the early 1960s led to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, unsolved as of 2024. And in 1963, Frederick Vine and Dru
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wiki
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description:
Early computer from 1958
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC_2
date created:
2008-03-24T21:35:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:34:24Z
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