EDSAC 2
EDSAC 2 was an early computer (operational in 1958), the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit-slice hardware architecture.[1]
 EDSAC 2 users in 1960 | |
| Release date | 1958 |
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| Predecessor | EDSAC |
First calculations were performed on incomplete machine in 1957.[2] Calculations about elliptic curves performed on EDSAC-2 in the early 1960s led to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, unsolved as of 2020.
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- Wilkes, M.V. (1992). PDF available by "View PDF" (expand "View on IEEE"). "EDSAC 2". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 14 (4): 49–56. doi:10.1109/85.194055. S2CID 11377060.
- Information, Reed Business (1957-08-08). "New computer in Cambridge". New Scientist. Reed Business Information. p. 31.
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