Love the Whirlwind! i think of it as the original microcontroller, except not very micro of course. The 2kw address space is a bit small for bigger programs unfortunately, but it's still great fun to play with anyways.
Not implying whirlwind is the ur-machine, or originated terms of art, just noting that a lot of language in 1951 could be understood to apply in a domain-specific sense to a modern computer scientist: the jargon we use now, includes terms of art that these people use.
Love the Whirlwind! i think of it as the original microcontroller, except not very micro of course. The 2kw address space is a bit small for bigger programs unfortunately, but it's still great fun to play with anyways.
Also see the much larger digital archive of Whirlwind documents https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1157/...
Not implying whirlwind is the ur-machine, or originated terms of art, just noting that a lot of language in 1951 could be understood to apply in a domain-specific sense to a modern computer scientist: the jargon we use now, includes terms of art that these people use.
They are therefore at least 75 years old.
The booklet looks great.