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Computers in the Military and Space Sciences

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        Robert Frank Halley

        This paper is a short overview of computer systems used by the military from 1930 to the present. Since it is short, the paper is very superficial and contains no technical data. This puts the paper into the general interest domain, in which it suffers from numerous acronyms being used without definition. Also, the paper consistently references computers by name without identifying why they were significant to the history of computing. The paper does not pursue the relationship of various military systems with each other, or with the more commonly known commercial systems of the day. The authors also do not show how these systems influenced today's computer architectures as they claimed they would do. This paper would be useful only to readers experienced in military systems, and then only of moderate interest to that audience.

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          cover image Computer
          Computer  Volume 17, Issue 10
          IEEE Centennial: the state of computing
          October 1984
          320 pages

          Copyright © 1984

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          IEEE Computer Society Press

          Washington, DC, United States

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          • Published: 1 October 1984

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