It's nearly 50 years since Maurice Wilkes built the world's first stable stored-program computer. Dan Sabbagh pays tribute to a legendary computing pioneer.
If the history of computing were personified, it would look a lot stable stored-program computer. Dan Sabbagh pays tribute to a legendary computing pioneer. like Maurice Wilkes. Almost 50 years ago...
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