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A comment on Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80. Parent comment
The hardware was the prestigious work, the programming was considered clerical.
That framing took decades to reverse.
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The hardware was the prestigious work, the programming was considered clerical.
That framing took decades to reverse.