书目名称 | Tales of Electrologica |
副标题 | Computers, Software |
编辑 | Gerard Alberts,Jan Friso Groote |
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概述 | Provides a postwar and Cold War perspective of early (Dutch) computer manufacturing.Pioneers and historians joining forces in telling highly engaged tales.Brings a gem from Dutch history of computing |
丛书名称 | History of Computing |
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描述 | .Manufacturing computers in series was quite a feat in the 1950s. As mathematical as it gets, the machines discussed here were called X1 and X8..The industrial achievement combined with the background in a mathematical research center made the company Electrologica a legend in Dutch computing. The tales in this book are told by those who have a right to tell. Highly engaged professionals take readers back to their pioneering work with the machines and in retrospect unveil some of the values, which went without saying in the 1960s...To disagree,.Paul Klint. relates the contrasting views on software in Dutchresearch traditions...ALGOLculture: .Frans Kruseman Aretz. takes the reader along to thedetailed decisions on constructing compilers and shows the values of anALGOL culture transpiring..Signposts:.Dirk Dekker .for the first time ‘owns’ his algorithm for mutual exclusion..Inparticle physics: .René van Dantzig.’s use case was an ElectrologicaX8 computer controlling two other computers in three-dimensional detectionof colliding particles...Earlysteps in AI: .Lambert Meertens’. tale of the X8 machine composing aviolin quartet comes with his original presentation, as well as the codein |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | Computer manufacturing; Composing music per computer; Dekker‘s algorithm for mutual exclusion; Dijkstra |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13033-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-13035-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-13033-5Series ISSN 2190-6831 Series E-ISSN 2190-684X |
issn_series | 2190-6831 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |