Really interesting to think about hardware vs software. Thank goodness for Von Neumann for helping us get more generic.
A lot of historians assume that Babbages work collected dust and was lost for 100 years. This turns out to not be true at all. His work was consulted by the Scheuts and Jevons. Details on what I found researching him at https://buriedreads.com/2019/02/09/when-computers-stopped-be...
A lot of historians assume that Babbages work collected dust and was lost for 100 years. This turns out to not be true at all. His work was consulted by the Scheuts and Jevons. Details on what I found researching him at https://buriedreads.com/2019/02/09/when-computers-stopped-be...