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Maurice Wilkes Introduces Microprogamming

7/9/1951 to 7/12/1951
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Cover of the Manchester computer conference proceedings

From July 9-12, 1951 the second English electronic computer conference was held at the University of Manchester to inaugurate the first Ferranti Mark 1. There Maurice Wilkes introduced the term “microprogramming, ”referring to the design of control circuits. The idea was not widely accepted until the following decade. (See Reading 8.8.)

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