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WILKES, MAURICE V. 1913-2010. 1. "Programme Design for a High-Speed Automatic Calculating Machine" AND (with W. RENWICK) "The EDSAC—an Electronic Calculating Machine."
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WILKES, MAURICE V. 1913-2010.
1. "Programme Design for a High-Speed Automatic Calculating Machine" AND (with W. RENWICK) "The EDSAC—an Electronic Calculating Machine." AND (with W. RENWICK) "The EDSAC—an Electronic Calculating Machine." IN: Journal of Scientific Instruments and of Physics in Industry. London: Institute of Physics, June & December, 1949. Vol 26, nos 6 & 12. 2 issues. 4to. Original printed gray wrappers.
2. WILKES, et al. The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer. With special reference to the EDSAC and the use of a library of subroutines. Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1951. 8vo. [14], 167, [3] pp. Errata sheet tipped in. Original brown cloth. Mild rubbing to tips, near fine.
WILKES'S FIRST PAPERS ON COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON PROGRAMMING. Wilkes's first paper was submitted on February 18, 1949, 3 months before EDSAC was officially operating. "It confirms that the method of programming the machine had to be worked out while the machine was in development ... Wilkes made special reference to EDSAC's programming system, describing its library of subroutines, methods of instruction modification and loading" (OOC). The subsequent paper concerns the architecture of the EDSAC.
The first textbook on computer programming is the English issue with the "Scientific Computing Service" sticker below imprint on title. EDSAC had "the ability to construct programs from relocatable subroutines, and to link them together at load time, provid[ing] a model for almost all others to follow. The model was well explained by one of the most influential textbooks of this early era, The Preparations of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer ... The form of constructing programs and how they should be linked together to form a load module, as described in this book, reappears many times for different computers being constructed in different countries. It provided the basic ideas as to how one should go about creating a computer system" (Williams History of Computing Technology p 237). Origins of Cyberspace 1023, 1025, and 1030.
2. WILKES, et al. The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer. With special reference to the EDSAC and the use of a library of subroutines. Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1951. 8vo. [14], 167, [3] pp. Errata sheet tipped in. Original brown cloth. Mild rubbing to tips, near fine.
WILKES'S FIRST PAPERS ON COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON PROGRAMMING. Wilkes's first paper was submitted on February 18, 1949, 3 months before EDSAC was officially operating. "It confirms that the method of programming the machine had to be worked out while the machine was in development ... Wilkes made special reference to EDSAC's programming system, describing its library of subroutines, methods of instruction modification and loading" (OOC). The subsequent paper concerns the architecture of the EDSAC.
The first textbook on computer programming is the English issue with the "Scientific Computing Service" sticker below imprint on title. EDSAC had "the ability to construct programs from relocatable subroutines, and to link them together at load time, provid[ing] a model for almost all others to follow. The model was well explained by one of the most influential textbooks of this early era, The Preparations of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer ... The form of constructing programs and how they should be linked together to form a load module, as described in this book, reappears many times for different computers being constructed in different countries. It provided the basic ideas as to how one should go about creating a computer system" (Williams History of Computing Technology p 237). Origins of Cyberspace 1023, 1025, and 1030.