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Konrad Zuse's Early Computers: The Quest for the Computer in Germany

Konrad Zuse's Early Computers: The Quest for the Computer in Germany

Rojas, Raul

Hardcover

Series: History of Computing

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 3031398750
ISBN13: 9783031398759
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 14 2023
Pages: 229
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book describes the historical development of the architectures of the first computers built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin between 1936 and 1945. Zuse's machines are historically important because they anticipated many features of modern computers.

Specifically, these include the separation of processor and memory, the ability to compute with floating-point numbers, a hardware architecture based on microprogramming of the instruction set, and a layered design with a high-level programming language on top. In fact, Zuse's early computers are closer to modern computers than the Harvard Mark I or ENIAC, two other contenders for the title of world's first computer. The theoretical program first conceived by Zuse in 1936/37 was fulfilled with a series of machines built before and during World War II: the Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4. Separate chapters deal with the architecture of each computer, culminating in the description of Plankalkül, the first proposal for a high-level programming language.

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