Eckhart, P.

Japanese: エッカート,P. - えっかーと
Eckhart, P.

...It performed automatic sequential control, and thus contained the basic concept of today's computers. The first purely electronic general-purpose computer, which used vacuum tubes instead of mechanical elements for calculations, was the ENIAC, completed in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert Jr. and John W. Mauchly (recent research suggests that the ABC, prototyped by John V. Atanasoff around 1942, preceded it as a purely electronic computer, although it was less versatile). However, ENIAC was not strictly a stored-program computer, as the program was entered by rewiring the wires using plugs. ...

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…自動逐次制御を行うので,今日のコンピューターの基本的な考え方を含んでいた。 計算の素子に機械を使わない,真空管を使った最初の純電子的な汎用コンピューターは,プレスパー・エッカートJ.Presper Eckert Jr.とジョン・モークリーJohn W.Mauchlyが1946年に完成したENIACである(最近の研究では,汎用性は薄いものの,純電子的なコンピューターとして,ジョン・アタナソフJohn V.Atanasoffが1942年ごろに試作したABCがそれに先んずるという説もある)。ただし,ENIACはプログラムをプラグによる結線のやり直しによって行うので,厳密な意味でのプログラム内蔵方式ではない。…

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