>>>Since we were recently discussing the first computer, I wondered, if
>>>the Zuse was "first", then what is the ENIAC famous for?
>>It's main use was calculating ballistics tables for artillery. If
>>anyone really cares, I could explain it in detail - but it's pretty
>>boring stuff.
> For one thing, why is it generally considered to be the first computer?
Maybe a very simple thing - since after the war ther was only the
Brit/US developents known to the (Brit/US) Scientists, they just
didn't know (like von Neuman is always credited for the idea of
a seperation of memory and CPU - but in fact Zuse had published
this idea 7 years earlyer).
It's a bit like one woman, in Florida, asked me around 1992
if I'm from West Germany, East Germany or new Germany *rotfl*
Missing information.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 17:51:22 BST