D. Eckert: ”architecture is determined by the machine memory.’
by admin on Mar.08, 2010, under Uncategorized
Strong deterrent to the work of the designers of computers beginning of 50 – ies was the lack of high-speed memory. According to one of the pioneers of computer technology – D. Eckert,”architecture is determined by the machine memory.” The researchers focused their efforts on the storage properties of ferrite beads, strung on wire matrix.
In 1951, 22 – m volume,”Journal of Applid Phisics”J. Forrester published an article on the use of magnetic cores for storage of digital information. In the car,”Whirlwind – 1”was first applied to the memory of the magnet. It was a 2 Cuba 32×32x17 cores, which provides storage of 2,048 words for 16 – bit binary numbers with a discharge control for parity.
In the development of electronic computers has joined the firm IBM. In 1952 she released her first industrial electronic computer IBM 701, which was a synchronous parallel operation of the computer containing the 4000 vacuum tubes and 12,000 germanium diodes. An enhanced version of the IBM 704 machines are fast work, it used the index registers and the data presented in the form of floating-point.