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Re: [OT] Babage and computer history

From "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: [OT] Babage and computer history
Date 2015-07-12 02:22 -0400
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"Julio Di Egidio" <julio@diegidio.name> wrote in message 
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Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer in history for her ideas on 
programming and programmable calculators and for the first explicit use of 
algorithms.  But she used the calculators that were available at the time to 
do her experiments, not any programmable ones.  Babbage, who was an 
engineer, designed the first programmable, i.e. general purpose calculator 
in history: what we would call a "computer".  But it was 
mechanico-hydraulic... as big as football stadium: it was never funded.  If 
you want to know more, go to the library.

Go to the library. What library. I have read of the difference and 
anylytical engines. Babbage and other have built them. But I have *never* 
came across anything that said anything was as large as a football field. I 
would certainly like to know your source and library. I have read it's 
"Turning complete" with an "Instruction set" or ISA. Even memory.

Bill

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[OT] Babage and computer history "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-07-09 14:20 -0400
  Re: [OT] Babage and computer history fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 08:33 -0700
  Re: [OT] Babage and computer history Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-10 08:50 -0700
    Re: [OT] Babage and computer history "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-07-10 14:22 -0400
      Re: [OT] Babage and computer history Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-10 22:03 +0100
        Re: [OT] Babage and computer history Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-10 19:49 -0700
        Re: [OT] Babage and computer history "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-07-10 23:16 -0400
          Re: [OT] Babage and computer history Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-10 20:19 -0700
          Re: [OT] Babage and computer history Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-11 23:19 +0100
            Re: [OT] Babage and computer history "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-07-12 12:22 -0400
              Re: [OT] Babage and computer history "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 18:31 -0400
            Re: [OT] Babage and computer history Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-12 10:09 -0700
      Re: [OT] Babage and computer history Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-10 20:11 -0700
        Re: [OT] Babage and computer history "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-07-11 14:03 -0400
        Re: [OT] Babage and computer history "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-07-12 02:22 -0400
          Re: [OT] Babage and computer history Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-12 10:07 -0700

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