ENCMP100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Punched Tape, Cryptanalysis, Eniac
22 Apr 2016
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The development of the programmable digital electronic computer during wwii started profound changes that now affect all aspects of technology and society. Then changes caused by computers and computing are an on-going. The impact of the computer revolution is comparable to the industrial. Such technological revolutions cause massive changes with positive and negative side effects. Processed 5000 characters/s, limited by the speed of the paper tape reader. Electronic numerical integrator and computer (eniac) - usa. The number of transistors that could be economically manufactured on a single integrated circuit was roughly doubling every two years. 1. 17 billion transistors forming six cores & l3 cache in 248mm2. Rate of calculation has been increased from tens of operations per second to billions of operations per second. Computers have shrunk in physical size and increased greatly in reliability as the implementation technology has evolved. All form of information can be represents using sequences of discrete symbols or digits form a finite-sized alphabet.
