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is EDVAC ? |
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It is a computing machine built in at the University of Pennsylvania for the Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Providing ground.
EDVAC is acronym for Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer. |
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EDVAC was built for the U.S. Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground
by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
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The EDVAC was a binary serial computer with automatic addition,
subtraction, multiplication, programmed division and automatic checking with an ultrasonic serial memory capacity of 1,000 44-bit words.
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