28 Dec
2017
28 Dec
'17
12:38 a.m.
I would recommend https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/3972
<https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/3972>
which is the Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing
Instrument, which describes the IAS machine.
On 2017, Dec 27, at 5:10 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
We gained John von Neumann on this day in 1903, and if you haven't heard of him then
you are barely human... As computer science goes, he's right up there with Alan
Turing. There is speculation that he knew of Babbage's work; see
https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/10828/the-relation-between-bab…
.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."