On Sep 10, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>> From: Brent Hilpert
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> ...snip...
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>> When/what/who was the actual first assembler conceived or produced?
>
> Noel wrote:
> A very good question indeed! Does anyone know?
>
> I have this bit set that one early computer assigne
> On Sep 10, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> From: Brent Hilpert
>
> ...
>
>> When/what/who was the actual first assembler conceived or produced?
>
> A very good question indeed! Does anyone know?
I don't. But I can point to an early example of a quite primitive ass
On 09/10/2017 10:22 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> A very good question indeed! Does anyone know?
Wikipedia gives credit to Kathleen Booth in 1947 developing an assembler
for the ARC2 at the UofL.
EDSAC had one in 1949.
Then there was SAP (Symbolic Assembly Program) and SOAP (Symbolic
Opt
> From: Brent Hilpert
> I have wondered just how much influence the latent theory that was
> around influenced the practical implementors of calculating machinery
> ...
> My impression is the implementors at the time arrived at stored-program
> machines far more out of prac
On 2017-Sep-06, at 11:03 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 1:25 PM, Fred Jan Kraan via cctalk
>> wrote:
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>> While reading a biography of Claude Shannon, I try to get a picture how
>> computers were seen and used before Information Theory emerged. It might be
>> somethin
> On Sep 6, 2017, at 1:25 PM, Fred Jan Kraan via cctalk
> wrote:
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> While reading a biography of Claude Shannon, I try to get a picture how
> computers were seen and used before Information Theory emerged. It might be
> something like this:
>
> Before Information Theory, computers were main
While reading a biography of Claude Shannon, I try to get a picture how
computers were seen and used before Information Theory emerged. It might
be something like this:
Before Information Theory, computers were mainly calculators; processing
programs from numbers put into the machine, much lik
