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by xxpor
1982 days ago
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What was the actual purpose of ENIAC? >Although ENIAC was designed and primarily used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (which later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory),[6][7] its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.[8][9] What was the first attempt at a large scale computer network? >In 1959, Anatolii Ivanovich Kitov proposed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union a detailed plan for the re-organisation of the control of the Soviet armed forces and of the Soviet economy on the basis of a network of computing centres, the OGAS.[6] States have always had a strong strategic interest in ensuring they have access and control of critical technology of the time for purposes of power projection. It's less about "the economy" than ensuring influence over strategically critical tech. |
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