First Calculator of History -
NealPeteros - 12.06.2017
How will you, if you put your feet in a coder's boots, not a scientist's, program the first calculator if given the chance?
Things to be notified on- There are no increments. Increments were made after the first calculator was made.
- There are no decrements. Decrements were made after the first calculator was made.
- There are no multiplication/division formula. Made after the first calculator was made.
- Loops are unavailable, it contains increments/decrements which were made after the first calculator was made
Re: First Calculator of History -
CheezIt - 12.06.2017
Looks like your homework.
Re: First Calculator of History -
rjjj - 12.06.2017
Those kinds of things are still done using description languages such as VHDL and Verilog. Basically
:
1 - Bitwise operations are combined to create the addition and subtraction operations.
2 - Memory logic (clocked) is used to create primitive loops through electrical feedback.
3 - Using the addition operation many times, one can make the multiplication. There is a similar relationship between the subtraction and the division.
I hope that I have helped
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Re: First Calculator of History -
NealPeteros - 12.06.2017
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Originally Posted by CheezIt
Looks like your homework.
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It's the very question that occurs in my mind. Everytime. Like in every second of every minute of every hour.
Quote:
Originally Posted by rjjj
Those kinds of things are still done using description languages such as VHDL and Verilog. Basically :
1 - Bitwise operations are combined to create the addition and subtraction operations.
2 - Memory logic (clocked) is used to create primitive loops through electrical feedback.
3 - Using the addition operation many times, one can make the multiplication. There is a similar relationship between the subtraction and the division.
I hope that I have helped .
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You helped...really...my headache.....
Re: First Calculator of History -
DRIFT_HUNTER - 12.06.2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by NealPeteros
How will you, if you put your feet in a coder's boots, not a scientist's, program the first calculator if given the chance?
Things to be notified on- There are no increments. Increments were made after the first calculator was made.
- There are no decrements. Decrements were made after the first calculator was made.
- There are no multiplication/division formula. Made after the first calculator was made.
- Loops are unavailable, it contains increments/decrements which were made after the first calculator was made
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If we were put in coder's boots BEFORE first calculator has been made, we would be useless since there was no coding back then.
Anyway, you probably looking for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine
Re: First Calculator of History -
]Kurence[ - 12.06.2017
Check my tetris/snake games in logisim, there is even a download link and you can play with it yourself in the logisim circuit editor
https://*********/YCBa1NH4ORE
I have first made the cpu/gpu (with loops and inc/dec support
) with no code on it, then made a simple asm compiler that made HEX file from the inatructions and then loaded this file into ROM.
If this was real and first computer in history, then i would not be able to write the compiler on my laptop and I would have to input binary code directly into ROM / hardwire it somehow
Re: First Calculator of History -
Mauzen - 12.06.2017
Simple addition/subtraction calculators can be made purley with hardware logic gates. There surely wasnt much programming involved.
Re: First Calculator of History -
NealPeteros - 12.06.2017
ouch....my head....thanks tho, some of it made sense.