DocumentCode
1446678
Title
The German TR 440 Computer: Software and Its Development
Author
Siegert, H.-J.
Author_Institution
Tuerkenfeld
Volume
32
Issue
3
fYear
2010
Firstpage
40
Lastpage
73
Abstract
The TR 440, a large-scale computer developed and manufactured by the German company AEG-Telefunken, was one of the first commercial time-sharing systems. This article focuses on the TR 440´s software and software development between 1965 to 1974, describing the technical highlights and showing how the software development was managed, who was responsible for various parts, and how and why certain decisions were made.
Keywords
Computer aided manufacturing; Engineering management; History; Large-scale systems; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Software engineering; Software systems; Technology management; TR 440; computer applications; history of computing; operating systems; programming languages; software engineering; software management;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.2009.61
Filename
5255176
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