| ▲ | 2b3a51 12 hours ago | |
It appears that Dr Coetzee was working on an important part of Atlas 2.. > "In 1964 Coetzee moved to IBM’s British competitor ICT, collaborating with computer scientists at Cambridge University on Britain’s first supercomputer, the Atlas 2. There Coetzee focused on multiprogramming, working on the Atlas 2's "supervisor," the earliest computer operating system." Above quote from another article by Rebecca Roach at https://egomedia.supdigital.org/sections/talking-interfaces/... That article develops ideas in a literary/cultural direction. I'd like to have a bit more information on the algorithms Coetzee was using. Christopher Strachey in the early 1950s was using a program with combinatorial word choice to produce 'love poems'. He posted the printouts on notice boards and they were signed M.U.C for Manchester University Computer (Ferranti Mark 1). That seems to be a simple choice from lists subject-verb-object type thing. | ||