The History of Computing

28 Mar 2019 in BUS 110

A brief history of computing and computers

A handful of important topics covered in the following slides:

• History of Computing (from punched cards to computer memory)
• Abstraction
• High-level Programming
• von Neumann Architecture (ALU, Memory [RAM, SAM, DRAM], CPU [Fetch, Decode, Execute])
• Moore’s Law