without an operating system or programming language,
given only the logical diagrams of the machine,
were not given credit at the time,
nor were some recognized in their lifetimes,
nor were they all invited or honored
at the fiftieth anniversary event.
Let’s think of this before we complain
of men who don’t get their due rewards.
While ENIAC was being built, J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly,
John von Neumann, A. W. Burks, and Captain H. Goldstine were selected to work
on a new computer that would take advantage
of the lessons that they were learning from ENIAC.
They called this new computer EDVAC.
The EDVAC was smaller than the ENIAC, eliminated parallel operations,
and stored its own program code.
It was completed in August 1949 and it started limited operations in late 1951.
Meanwhile, von Neumann’s report on the EDVAC
inspired similar projects in England, Australia, and
elsewhere in the United States.
While ENIAC was being built, J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, John von Neumann, A. W. Burks, and Captain H. Goldstine were selected to work on a new computer that would take advantage of the lessons that they were learning from ENIAC. They called this new computer EDVAC. The EDVAC was smaller than the ENIAC, eliminated parallel operations, and stored its own program code. It was completed in August 1949 and it started limited operations in late 1951. Meanwhile, von Neumann’s report on the EDVAC inspired similar projects in England, Australia, and elsewhere in the United States.
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