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Reminiscences of Project Y and the ACS Project

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Brian RandellORCiD

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Abstract

Brian Randell spent 1964-1966 first at IBM Research working on Project Y and then in the IBM Systems Development Division with the resulting ACS Project-then-secret projects that aimed to build a supercomputer that would be 100 times faster than Stretch. His account of these projects here makes use of a small set of files mainly relating to patent applications.

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Author(s): Randell B

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Year: 2015

Volume: 37

Issue: 3

Pages: 56-66

Print publication date: 01/07/2015

Online publication date: 13/07/2015

Acceptance date: 01/01/1900

ISSN (print): 1058-6180

ISSN (electronic): 1934-1547

Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2015.35

DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2015.35

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