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Re:Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"? by muglug on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:33PM (#49872538)
Very biased, but at Cambridge we were taught (by Maurice Wilkes among others) that the EDSAC was the first “useful” computer.
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Re:Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"? by limbicsystem on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:25AM (#49878522)
I just met John Robson at a meeting who was one of the first people in the world to run a frequency domain analysis on time series data - on EDSAC! He spent a long time explaining the precise algorithms to me - amazing!
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