Computer Evolution and Performance

What is the name of this machine?

ENIAC - BACKGROUND

• Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
• Eckert and Mauchly
• University of Pennsylvania
• Making a table of distance and trajectory control of new weapons
• Started in 1943
• Completed in 1946 Too late for war effort
• Used until 1955

ENIAC - detail

• Decimal (not binary)
• 20 accumulators each accommodate 10-digit decimal
• Programmed manually by switches
• 18.000 vacuum tubes
• 30 tons
• 15.000 square meters
• 140 kW power consumption
• Addition of 5.000 operations / second 

What is the name of this machine?
 
 Von Neumann/Turing

• Main memory, to store data and instructions
• Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), to process binary data. 
• Control Unit, to control the instructions in memory.
• I / O, to interact with the outside environment.
• Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, IAS (Institute for Advanced Computer Studies of).
  
  • Mathematician: ENIAC manufacturing consultant
  • 1945 to remedy deficiencies in ENIAC: EDVAC
  • EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Computer)
  • Concept: stored-program concept
  • 1946 published 
  • Known for: Computer IAS (Institute for Advanced Computer Studies of).