When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Stored program control - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_program_control

    Its characteristic is that the switching system is controlled by a computer program stored in a memory in the switching system. SPC was the enabling technology of electronic switching systems (ESS) developed in the Bell System in the 1950s, and may be considered the third generation of switching technology.

  3. Number One Electronic Switching System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_One_Electronic...

    The voice switching fabric plan was similar to that of the earlier 5XB switch in being bidirectional and in using the call-back principle. [clarification needed] [citation needed] The largest full-access matrix switches (the 12A line grids had partial access) in the system, however, were 8x8 rather than 10x10 or 20x16.

  4. Switch statement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_statement

    In computer programming languages, a switch statement is a type of selection control mechanism used to allow the value of a variable or expression to change the control flow of program execution via search and map. Switch statements function somewhat similarly to the if statement used in programming languages like C/C++, C#, Visual Basic .NET ...

  5. Electronic switching system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Switching_System

    In telecommunications, an electronic switching system (ESS) is a telephone switch that uses solid-state electronics, such as digital electronics and computerized common control, to interconnect telephone circuits for the purpose of establishing telephone calls.

  6. History of software - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_software

    The very first time a stored-program computer held a piece of software in electronic memory and executed it successfully, was 11 am 21 June 1948, at the University of Manchester, on the Manchester Baby computer. It was written by Tom Kilburn, and calculated the highest factor of the integer 2^18 = 262,144. Starting with a large trial divisor ...

  7. BASIC - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC

    BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) [1] is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963.

  8. Epoch (computing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(computing)

    Software timekeeping systems vary widely in the resolution of time measurement; some systems may use time units as large as a day, while others may use nanoseconds.For example, for an epoch date of midnight UTC (00:00) on 1 January 1900, and a time unit of a second, the time of the midnight (24:00) between 1 January 1900 and 2 January 1900 is represented by the number 86400, the number of ...

  9. Timeline of computing 1950–1979 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_1950...

    The A-0 high-level compiler is invented by Grace Murray Hopper. April 1952: US IBM introduces the IBM 701, the first computer in its 700 and 7000 series of large scale machines with varied scientific and commercial architectures, but common electronics and peripherals. Some computers in this series remained in service until the 1980s.