Format:
1 Online-Ressource (205 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9783031130335
Series Statement:
History of Computing Series
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Electrologica, a Gem -- 1.1 Electrologica Is a Gem in the History of Dutch Computing -- 1.1.1 Organizing Research -- 1.1.2 Mathematical Culture -- 1.1.3 Owning Electrologica -- 1.2 State of the Art -- 1.2.1 The Company -- 1.2.2 The Mathematical Center -- 1.2.3 Software, Language, and ALGOL -- 1.2.4 The Dijkstra-Zonneveld Compiler -- 1.2.5 Industrial Design and Cold War -- 1.3 On Offer -- 2 Philips and the Fate of Electrologica -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Calculating Machines in the Postwar Innovation Spirit -- 2.3 The English Tour -- 2.4 The Harvest of 1953 -- 2.5 Towards Production in Series, the ZEBRA Story -- 2.6 Electrologica -- 2.7 Electrologica's Company Strategy -- 2.8 Knowledge and Propriety at Philips -- 2.9 European Perspective -- 3 From the X1 to the X8 -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Towards Electrologica's Founding -- 3.3 Electrologica X1 -- 3.3.1 Developing the Prototype for Nillmij -- 3.3.2 Electrologica Takes off -- 3.3.3 Electrologica's Connection to Peripherals -- 3.3.4 Delivering Software -- 3.4 Seeking a Successor: X0 and X2, or the X8 -- 3.4.1 Ambitious Successors to the X1 -- 3.4.2 A Realistic Successor to the X1, the X8 -- 3.4.3 Users Get Involved: The Z8 Software Committee -- 3.5 The ELX Series Marked the End -- 4 Software Without Memory -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Early Computer Science in the Netherlands -- 4.3 A Personal Perspective -- 4.4 Two Suggestions for History Research -- 5 The Mathematical Center, ALGOL 60, and the Electrologica X8 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 My Years at the Mathematical Center -- 5.3 The Electrologica X1 and X8 -- 5.4 ALGOL 60 -- 5.5 The MC Implementation of ALGOL 60 forthe Electrologica X8 -- 5.5.1 Language Choice and Language Interpretation -- 5.5.2 The Mapping from Source Language to Object Language -- 5.5.3 The Construction of the Compiler
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5.6 Text Editing Anno 1960-1965 -- 5.7 Closing Remarks and Evaluation -- 6 History of Dekker's Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Definition of the Mutual Exclusion Problem for Two Processes -- 6.3 Dekker's Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion -- 6.4 Variants -- 6.5 Mutual Exclusion for Any Number of Processes -- 7 The Electrologica X8 and the BOL Detector -- 7.1 Introduction and Background -- 7.2 The BOL Project -- 7.3 Why and How the X8 Came to IKO -- 7.4 Setting up the Computing and Network Infrastructure -- 7.5 Time-Sharing -- 7.6 Developing Data Reduction and Analysis Software -- 7.7 Software for Minicomputer Network Nodes -- 7.8 Final Considerations and Conclusions -- 8 An Early Experiment in Algorithmic Composition -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Affix Grammars -- 8.3 The IFIP Competition -- 8.4 The Musical Result -- Appendix 1 Composing with a computer -- Appendix 2 The Algol 60 procedure compose -- References -- A Note on the Contributors -- Provenance of the Pictures -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Alberts, Gerard Tales of Electrologica Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 ISBN 9783031130328
Language:
English
Keywords:
Niederlande
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Computerindustrie
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Geschichte 1950-1970
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Electrologica
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Geschichte
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