What is EDSAC Simulator?

The EDSAC was the world’s first practical stored-program computer; it was designed and built at Cambridge University, and performed its first fully automatic calculation on 6 May 1949. The Warwick University simulator is a faithful representation of the EDSAC designed to run on the Macintosh computer. The user interface has all the controls and displays of the original machine, and the system includes a library of original programs, subroutines, debugging software, and program documentation. This report includes a description of the EDSAC and an account of the seminal programming techniques developed for it during 1949-51. Several demonstration programs and programming problems are supplied, so that users can gain first-hand experience of what it was like to develop and run a program on a first-generation computer.

Campbell-Kelly, Martin. (1995). A Tutorial Guide to the Warwick University EDSAC Simulator. Electronic Document.

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II