EDSAC 2
Encyclopedia
EDSAC 2 was an early computer
, the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator. It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed
control unit
and a bit slice hardware architecture.
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
, the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator. It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed
Microcode
Microcode is a layer of hardware-level instructions and/or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in many computers and other processors; it resides in special high-speed memory and translates machine instructions into sequences of detailed...
control unit
Control unit
A control unit in general is a central part of the machinery that controls its operation, provided that a piece of machinery is complex and organized enough to contain any such unit. One domain in which the term is specifically used is the area of computer design...
and a bit slice hardware architecture.