EDSAC 1951

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13 жыл бұрын

The work flow of writing an EDSAC computer programme, generating the programme paper tape, and the execution of the program are presented with narration. If ever there was a compelling case for the creation of assemblers, compilers, and automated batch processing systems, this video is it.

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@donahue7 7 жыл бұрын

I had the fortunate opportunity to work with Maurice in the '80s when we were both with Olivetti Research. He was just a wonderful man and a real scientist from whom I learned much.

@ryanleemartin7758 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing that.

@HebaruSan 2 жыл бұрын

Came for the physical "job queue", stayed for the secretary doing static linking of a library function

@berczigabor 8 ай бұрын

She was actually doing not static linking, but inlining, literally

@juliomoraes302 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for give me the opportunity of watching this!

@jwaffe 11 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, I can see how some of the programming elements even from the present inherit from these old systems.

@shpigunov 3 жыл бұрын

Fast forward to 2020, when npm run build takes more memory and computing runtime than the was globally available in ‘51

@rickintexas1584 3 жыл бұрын

What a fascinating look into the past. I wrote my first program in 1978. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants. I’m working on an engineering task and my laptop “only” has 64 GB of RAM, but I need 256 GB. I have to break my problem into chunks because 64 GB is not enough!!!!

@Dragonblaster1 7 жыл бұрын

Maurice Wilkes is a shamefully unsung computer hero.

@LeopardBsod 11 жыл бұрын

5:50 -> 6:30 a real 'include'

@MercuryModder 10 жыл бұрын

Wow that computer was huge!

@casquijo Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@JustinWrt 11 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU.

@johnferguson8040 7 жыл бұрын

EDSAC

@Noammats 3 жыл бұрын

Now they just need a machine to interpret the results. But first, let's convert the results into binary...

@WagnerRodrigoDds 2 жыл бұрын

Debugging is still the same hehe.

@marconatrix 13 жыл бұрын

You'd think the film was made circa 1920 not 1972 by the manner and speech of the narrator. "And now for something completely different ..."

@Chode5evr 5 жыл бұрын

That's just a British accent, they actually still talk like this.

@NelsonLiljunior 4 ай бұрын

Primeira geração

@GMBEATZPROD 3 жыл бұрын

video ingles denovo uninter kk

@clasdauskas 3 жыл бұрын

They cheated - took the program off the wrong end of the queue :)

@berczigabor 8 ай бұрын

Nobody said it was a FIFO queue. There are also LIFO queues. A stack is a prime example of that.

@poweralpha2011 2 жыл бұрын

but... Can It Run Crysis?

@felixgill3104 9 жыл бұрын

note the woman's program was incorrect but the gentleman's program was correctly written -- the beginnings of misogyny in the field perhaps

@unixtohack 8 жыл бұрын

+Felix Gill It is indeed so. It was another time.

@emmadoyle4157 8 жыл бұрын

+Felix Gill I have to disagree. Lucy Slater (who also worked at EDSAC, but I believe prior to the making of the video) computed many successful results on this machine; the video may suppose it was a "different time," but women were doing very useful things on this machine. See her book on the Confluent Hypergeometric Function. From her interview at ethw.org/Oral-History:Lucy_Slater: "I was doing the calculations of the Schroedinger Equation solutions, the hypergeometric functions, and in the particular the confluent hypergeometric functions. It’s that book that you touched just then; that was the outcome." She was, nonetheless, a women's rights activist, to the extent of my knowledge, but only on a small scale; things that effected her directly, in other words. Her mother, on the other hand, was a suffragist in England around WWI and prior. Nevertheless, this is an awesome video.

@unixtohack 8 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the weird reaction, but I have a deep respect for these first programmers without any tool. I gone search en read some stuff of her. But it was another time with many fields to explore from scratch. Domo Arrigato.

@RhinoBlindado 3 жыл бұрын

Hot takes nobody asked for