Ferranti Atlas documentary video by Google

A new short documentary video released by Google, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Britain's first supercomputer the Ferranti Atlas.

The video include interviews with engineers that change future of computers, without the Ferranti Atlas you wont have a powerful computer that able to play Crysis, first switched on in December 1962, Atlas was the world's most powerful computer. Some of the software concepts it pioneered, like 'virtual memory', are among the most important breakthroughs in computer design and still used today.



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