23 Jan
2017
23 Jan
'17
5:33 p.m.
On Jan 23, 2017, at 5:09 PM, Toby Thain <toby at
telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 2017-01-23 6:55 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Has this been scanned anywhere?
Yes, it's on the CWI website in Amsterdam. The trouble for most readers is that
it's in Dutch. I'm working on translating it. Report CR3, Principles of
electronic computers, course Feb 1948, by A. van Wijngaarden.
His comments on ENIAC should be able to be confirmed (or refuted) from ENIAC
documentation.
paul
On Jan 23, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
...
It's just that I bridle a bit when hearing the young 'uns refer to any
physically large machine as a "supercomputer".
It's the same feeling that I get when I see press releases today that
relate that David Gelernter single-handedly developed the parallel
computation. He's not old enough; at 61, he was still in high school
during the ILLIAC IV era.
Even earlier...
From what I've read, ENIAC supported parallel computing, but in practice it
wasn't used because it was too hard to get the code right. At least, that's what
a computer design course from 1948 states.