Alan Turing's Other Universal Machine.
The article discusses the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), a stored program computer proposed by the computer scientist Alan Turing in 1946, examining its design and influence. The author examines the ACE's use of mercury delay-line memory, optimum programming, and multiple registers. The article d...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 55; no. 7; pp. 31 - 34 |
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| Formato: | Opinion |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jul2012
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), a stored program computer proposed by the computer scientist Alan Turing in 1946, examining its design and influence. The author examines the ACE's use of mercury delay-line memory, optimum programming, and multiple registers. The article discusses the importance of ACE derivatives such as the English Electric Company's DEUCE and the Bendix Aviation Corporation's Bendix G-15 and argues that ACE influenced computer design. |
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