Alan Turing's automatic computing engine: the master codebreaker's struggle to build the modern computer
Maker and role
Robert W. Doran, Author
Oxford University Press, Publisher
Production date
2005
Object detail
Accession number
MSS-2020-7.28
Description
"The style of computer architecture proposed by Turing was very practical, given the circumstances of the time. He anticipated later 'low level' architectures, and higher layers of abstraction for programming. This chapter considers the architecture of the ACE computers in the light of developments in computer architecture of the ACE computers in the light of developments in computer architecture over the fifty years that followed..." --From introduction.
Edited by Jack Copeland.
Edited by Jack Copeland.
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"2005" Hand-written
Media/Materials
Physical description
5 leaves, pages 193 - 206 ; 29.5 cm
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Item
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Credit line
Robert W. Doran et al. 2005. Alan Turing's automatic computing engine: the master codebreaker's struggle to build the modern computer, MSS-2020-7.28. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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