The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer

Author: Maurice Vincent Wilkes

Publisher:

Published: 1951

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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This is often considered the first book on computer programming. It was written for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) computer that began operation in 1949 as the world's first regularly operated stored program computer. The idea of a library of subroutines was developed for the EDSAC, and is described in this book. Maurice Wilkes lead the development of the EDSAC.

Design of Digital Computers
Design of Digital Computers

Author: Hans W. Gschwind

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 3642861903

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I have been using the first edition of this book as a text for a number of years. This was in a Stanford University first-year graduate course that is taken by students from Electrical Engineering or Computer Science who are interested in computer organization. Because computer tech nology has been changing so rapidly, it became necessary to supplement the text with additional readings. My colleagues and I examined many newly-published books for possible use as texts. We found no book with the same excellent choice of topics and thorough coverage as Dr. Gschwind's first edition. Springer-Verlag's request that I prepare a second edition of this book came at a time when I had many other projects underway. Before I de cided whether to take on the project of preparing a revision, I asked many of my students for their opinions of Dr. Gschwind's first edition. Even I was surprised by the enthusiasm that this rather skeptical and critical group of students displayed for the book. It was this enthusiasm that convinced me of the value and importance of preparing the revision.

Digital Computer System Principles
Digital Computer System Principles

Author: Herbert Hellerman

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13:

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Automatic computer systems; Programming; Program translation; Storage organization and searching; Logic and logic circuits; Data-flow circuits and magnetic-core storage; Turing, finite-state, and sequential circuit models; Number representation and arithmetic operations; Computer architecture and microprogramming; The IBM system/360 and system/370; Some principles of reliability theory.

The Origins of Digital Computers
The Origins of Digital Computers

Author: B. Randell

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 3642961452

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My interest in the history of digital computers became an active one when I had the fortune to come across the almost entirely forgotten work of PERCY LUDGATE, who designed a mechanical program-controlled computer in Ireland in the early I ':ICC's. I undertook an investigation of his life and work, during which I began to realise that a large number of early developments, which we can now see as culminating in the modern digital computer, had been most undeservedly forgotten. Hopefully, historians of science, some of whom are now taking up the subject of the development of the computer and accumulating valuable data, particularly about the more recent events from the people concerned, will before too long provide us with comprehensive analytical accounts of the invention of the computer. The present book merely aims to bring together some of the more important and interesting written source material for such a history of computers. (Where necessary, papers have been translated into English, but every attempt has been made to retain the flavour of the original, and to avoid possibly misleading use of modern computing terminology.

An Introduction to Digital Computing
An Introduction to Digital Computing

Author: F. H. George

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-05-09

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1483180824

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An Introduction to Digital Computing provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of digital computing. This book represents a major step towards the universal availability of programmed material. Organized into four chapters, this book begins with an overview of the fundamental workings of the computer, including the way it handles simple arithmetic problems. This text then provides a brief survey of the basic features of a typical computer that is divided into three sections, namely, the input and output system, the memory system for data storage, and a processing system. Other chapters focus on programming and on the workings of the computer control unit. This book discusses as well the various arithmetic codes such as binary, decimal, octal, duodecimal, and hexadecimal codes. The final chapter deals with some of the more detailed workings of the control unit. This book is a valuable resource for university students and computer specialists.