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| Jan 13, 2012 at 15:55 | comment | added | old_timer | also folks keep getting stuck on this idea that early computers had instruction sets. The early computers were women with good math skills with pencil and paper, and that is what they were called, computers. then those women (or one in particular) programmed the eniac by connecting wires not using an instruction set. Programming with an instruction set was well well down the road. Yes, very easy to get caught up in the use of a word or term like assembler or computer or early. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 9:53 | comment | added | The111 | +1 for the "assembler, you" comment. It's easy to get attached to one definition of a word (i.e. assembler = software) but your comment really puts the obvious back into perspective... that the "assembly process" is just a system/routine, one which easily could be undertaken by a human assembler. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 4:27 | history | answered | old_timer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |