Title :
The Design of a Control Unit-Reflections on Reading Babbage´s Notebooks
Abstract :
Babbage published very little on the detailed design of the control system for the Analytical Engine. In this paper the author puts forward a possible reason for this and discusses the relationship between Babbage´s ideas as revealed in his unpublished work and modern concepts.
Keywords :
Books; Chromium; Digital arithmetic; Engines; Information processing; Milling machines; Permission; Reflection; Security; Writing;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.1981.10019
