[Cryptography] RIP Tommy Flowers
John Levine
johnl at iecc.com
Wed Oct 28 00:13:49 EDT 2015
>Perhaps you feel that a computer needs a program. I don't really know
>the whether the Colossus' tape was what we'd consider a program.
The tape was just the input message and was used as a clock. I think
the program was wired in the valves.
>Perhaps you meant to add "electronic".
>
>And why not one of Zuse's machines? Or Atanasoff's?
Zuse's weren't electronic, Atanasoff's was a lot smaller and much
less programmable, but there's certainly been a lot of opinions
about which was how close to a real computer, for various definitions
of computer.
R's,
John
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