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, Raul 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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