Walt Mankowski on Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:00:12 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] ENIAC


On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:03:51PM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote:
> Yes.  There was an EE design project to implement the original ENIAC
> design in an IC for the 50th anniversary of ENIAC in 1997.
> 
> It was an interesting architecture, and it was more than just a simple
> calculator.  Because of how it was wired, the various units operated
> somewhat independantly, allowing a crude form of parallelism.

There's more information about the project at
http://www.ee.upenn.edu/~jan/eniacproj.html.  Searching upenn.edu's
web site for "enaic chip" returns a number of other interesting pages
as well.

Walt

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