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  • ggm 1 hour ago
    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.

  • stmw 5 days ago
    Also see the much larger digital archive of Whirlwind documents https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1157/...