Tales of Electrologica Computers, Software and People
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Springer International Publishing AG
2023
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed |
| Schriftenreihe: | History of Computing Series
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Electrologica, a Gem
- 1.1 Electrologica Is a Gem in the History of Dutch Computing
- 1.1.1 Organizing Research
- 1.1.2 Mathematical Culture
- 1.1.3 Owning Electrologica
- 1.2 State of the Art
- 1.2.1 The Company
- 1.2.2 The Mathematical Center
- 1.2.3 Software, Language, and ALGOL
- 1.2.4 The Dijkstra-Zonneveld Compiler
- 1.2.5 Industrial Design and Cold War
- 1.3 On Offer
- 2 Philips and the Fate of Electrologica
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Calculating Machines in the Postwar Innovation Spirit
- 2.3 The English Tour
- 2.4 The Harvest of 1953
- 2.5 Towards Production in Series, the ZEBRA Story
- 2.6 Electrologica
- 2.7 Electrologica's Company Strategy
- 2.8 Knowledge and Propriety at Philips
- 2.9 European Perspective
- 3 From the X1 to the X8
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Towards Electrologica's Founding
- 3.3 Electrologica X1
- 3.3.1 Developing the Prototype for Nillmij
- 3.3.2 Electrologica Takes off
- 3.3.3 Electrologica's Connection to Peripherals
- 3.3.4 Delivering Software
- 3.4 Seeking a Successor: X0 and X2, or the X8
- 3.4.1 Ambitious Successors to the X1
- 3.4.2 A Realistic Successor to the X1, the X8
- 3.4.3 Users Get Involved: The Z8 Software Committee
- 3.5 The ELX Series Marked the End
- 4 Software Without Memory
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Early Computer Science in the Netherlands
- 4.3 A Personal Perspective
- 4.4 Two Suggestions for History Research
- 5 The Mathematical Center, ALGOL 60, and the Electrologica X8
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 My Years at the Mathematical Center
- 5.3 The Electrologica X1 and X8
- 5.4 ALGOL 60
- 5.5 The MC Implementation of ALGOL 60 forthe Electrologica X8
- 5.5.1 Language Choice and Language Interpretation
- 5.5.2 The Mapping from Source Language to Object Language
- 5.5.3 The Construction of the Compiler
- 5.6 Text Editing Anno 1960-1965
- 5.7 Closing Remarks and Evaluation
- 6 History of Dekker's Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Definition of the Mutual Exclusion Problem for Two Processes
- 6.3 Dekker's Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion
- 6.4 Variants
- 6.5 Mutual Exclusion for Any Number of Processes
- 7 The Electrologica X8 and the BOL Detector
- 7.1 Introduction and Background
- 7.2 The BOL Project
- 7.3 Why and How the X8 Came to IKO
- 7.4 Setting up the Computing and Network Infrastructure
- 7.5 Time-Sharing
- 7.6 Developing Data Reduction and Analysis Software
- 7.7 Software for Minicomputer Network Nodes
- 7.8 Final Considerations and Conclusions
- 8 An Early Experiment in Algorithmic Composition
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Affix Grammars
- 8.3 The IFIP Competition
- 8.4 The Musical Result
- Appendix 1 Composing with a computer
- Appendix 2 The Algol 60 procedure compose
- References
- A Note on the Contributors
- Provenance of the Pictures
- Index