Woven Memories

Having learned a bit more about the distinction between these items, I am recording it, and linking to the book I learned this from.

Searching for history tends to strongly pull you further back in time than you planned.

As computer designs matured, we moved from special purpose accumulators to general purpose registers.

What was it like to program ENIAC?

In 1953 Grace Hopper (COBOL) and John Mauchly (ENIAC) wrote a paper on how programming influences the hardware design of computers.

I’ve wanted to get a simulator for these classic computers, because it’s sometimes hard to understand how they work from descriptions in books.

I stumbled across a description of how an “interrupt” was implemented on the EDSAC 1.

Earliest idea of creating subroutines.

From simple automation to monitoring machine resources, the incubation of the operating system.

How did we go from rewiring plugboards to operating systems?