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From: mshute@cs.man.ac.uk (Malcolm Shute)
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Subject: Re: Mercury delay lines
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Date: 11 Jun 90 13:31:03 GMT
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>In article <1990Jun7.210822.5230@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
[about the Cambridge University machine]
>>Accoring to Wilkes, the EDSAC ran its first program on 6 May 1949...

In article <2701@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> kend@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM (Ken Dickey) writes:
[about the Moore School machine]
>The EDVAC design was done by a group at the Moore School of Engineering
>along with von Neumann.  It would not have made sense for the `first
>stored program to operate' never to have been built.
True... but EDVAC wasn't the first either!!!

The Manchester University Mark I machine was the first stored program
machine to run.  It first executed a program correctly (to compute
greatest common factors) on 21st June 1948 (I believe just a matter of
a couple of days before von Neumann's team got their machine working).

>Nits, nits, nits!
>-Ken Dickey			kend@mrloog.wr.tek.com
From me too.
--

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all