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It was replaced by EDSAC 2, the first microcoded and bitsliced computer, in 1958.
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Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator ( EDSAC ) was an early British computer.
EDSAC was the second usefully operational electronic digital stored-program computer.
Later the project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British firm, who were rewarded with the first commercially applied computer, LEO I, based on the EDSAC design.
As soon as EDSAC was completed, it began serving the University's research needs.
* In the 1960s, EDSAC was used to gather numerical evidence about solutions to elliptic curves, which led to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.
EDSAC's successor, EDSAC 2, was commissioned in 1958.
In 1961, an EDSAC 2 version of Autocode, an ALGOL-like high-level programming language for scientists and engineers, was developed by David Hartley.
In the mid-1960s, a successor to the EDSAC 2 was planned, but the move was instead made to the Titan, a prototype Atlas 2 — the latter having been developed from the Atlas Computer of the University of Manchester, Ferranti, and Plessey.
Wheeler was a research student at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge from 1948 – 51, and a pioneer programmer on the EDSAC project.
Hartree and Wilkes estimated that EDSAC was twelve to eighteen months from completion, but said that this timeline could be shortened if additional funding were available.
EDSAC was completed and ran its first program in May 1949.
Its ultrasonic delay line memory based on tanks of mercury, with 2K ( 2048 ) 35-bit words ( i. e., 8¾ K bytes ), was four times as large as that of EDSAC.
It was developed on the EDSAC computer, which uses a cathode ray tube as a visual display to display memory contents.
** LEO I ' Lyons Electronic Office ' was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, supported by British firm J. Lyons and Co.
The long-tailed pair was very successfully used in early British computing, most notably the Pilot ACE Model and descendants, Wilkes ' EDSAC, and probably others designed by people who worked with Blumlein or his peers.
In the early 1960s Peter Swinnerton-Dyer used the EDSAC computer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory to calculate the number of points modulo p ( denoted by N < sub > p </ sub >) for a large number of primes p on elliptic curves whose rank was known.
Since his laboratory had its own funding, he was immediately able to start work on a small practical machine, the EDSAC, once back at Cambridge.
This concept was implemented for the first time in EDSAC 2, which also used multiple identical " bit slices " to simplify design.
It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that ' hesitating at the angles of stairs ' the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent finding errors in my own
At about the same time, EDVAC was under development at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, and the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory was working on EDSAC.
Titan became fully operational in 1964 and EDSAC 2 was retired the following year.
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