Boy, there are many things wrong with this account; here's two things, for the full story get a copy of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Comp... And I'll note it's still relevant, we still build computers in the general approach this team developed. At a talk I attended in the '80s, Forrester said that he got out of hardware…
…considering among other things a microwave version of mercury delay lines, running a signal out to western Massachusetts and back. All that and lots more in this gem of a book: http://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Comp...
…finished Whirlwind, he (and his team) had solved all the significant outstanding problems in computer design. And that's not an exaggeration, read this excellent book for the details: https://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Com...
I heard that from his own mouth in the one talk of his I attended, and having read this book https://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Com... I knew he was right. Although "logic" might not make clear what we're talking about, it's things like parallel execution, modularity, 3D core memory, the first seriously useful…
……MIT Press 出过相当厚实的一套书，主要是关于 IBM 的，我发现对于理解1950年代（以及 IBM 比如 System/360 所在的1960年代初至中期）非常有帮助。我建议从 Kent C Redmond 写的《Project Whirlwind: The history of a pioneer computer》开始读，那是一本 Digital Press（也就是 DEC 旗下出版社）的书，那台计算机基本上奠定了我们至今制造计算机的诸多标准，而且……
…MIT Press has published a fairly large set of books, mostly about IBM, that I found very useful for understanding the 1950s (and for IBM the early-mid 1960s as in the System/360). I would start with Project Whirlwind: The history of a pioneer computer by Kent C Redmond, that's a Digital Press as in DEC book, that computer by and large defined a great many standards in the way we build computers to this day, and that…
哎呀，这个说法错漏百出；我就说两点，想了解全貌去买这本来看：http://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Comp... 而且我想说它现在依然不过时，我们如今造计算机大体上还是沿用这个团队开创的思路。在80年代我参加的一次讲座上，Forrester 说他之所以不做硬件了……
Boy, there are many things wrong with this account; here's two things, for the full story get a copy of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Comp... And I'll note it's still relevant, we still build computers in the general approach this team developed. At a talk I attended in the '80s, Forrester said that he got out of hardware…
……当时考虑的方案里还包括水银延迟线的微波版本，把信号一路发到马萨诸塞州西部再折返。这一切以及更多内容都在这本宝藏书里：http://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Comp...
…considering among other things a microwave version of mercury delay lines, running a signal out to western Massachusetts and back. All that and lots more in this gem of a book: http://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Comp...
……完成 Whirlwind 时，他（和他的团队）已经解决了计算机设计中所有重大的悬而未决的问题。这绝非夸大其词，读读这本好书了解细节吧：https://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Com...
…finished Whirlwind, he (and his team) had solved all the significant outstanding problems in computer design. And that's not an exaggeration, read this excellent book for the details: https://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Com...
在我去听过的那场他的讲座里，我是亲耳听他这么说的，而且读了这本书 https://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Com... 之后我就知道他是对的。虽然说“逻辑（logic）”可能让人摸不着头脑，但指的是诸如 parallel execution、modularity、3D core memory 以及首个真正实用的……这类东西。
I heard that from his own mouth in the one talk of his I attended, and having read this book https://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Com... I knew he was right. Although "logic" might not make clear what we're talking about, it's things like parallel execution, modularity, 3D core memory, the first seriously useful…
……MIT Press 出过相当厚实的一套书，主要是关于 IBM 的，我发现对于理解1950年代（以及 IBM 比如 System/360 所在的1960年代初至中期）非常有帮助。我建议从 Kent C Redmond 写的《Project Whirlwind: The history of a pioneer computer》开始读，那是一本 Digital Press（也就是 DEC 旗下出版社）的书，那台计算机基本上奠定了我们至今制造计算机的诸多标准，而且……
…MIT Press has published a fairly large set of books, mostly about IBM, that I found very useful for understanding the 1950s (and for IBM the early-mid 1960s as in the System/360). I would start with Project Whirlwind: The history of a pioneer computer by Kent C Redmond, that's a Digital Press as in DEC book, that computer by and large defined a great many standards in the way we build computers to this day, and that…