Programming the EDSAC: Early programming activity at the University of Cambridge

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 46-67

  Campbell Kelly, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; COMPUTERS;

ELECTRONIC DELAY STORAGE AUTOMATIC CALCULATOR;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0032184199     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.728229     Document Type: Article

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