| Abstract: | JOHN VON NEUMANN AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERN COMPUTING by William Aspray (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990—$35.00, ISBN 0-262-01121-2, 376 pp.) A HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING edited by Stephen G. Nash (New York: Association for Computing Machinery ACM) Press; co-published by Addison-Wesley, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-201-50814-1, 359 pp.) GLORY AND FAILURE: THE DIFFERENCE ENGINES OF JOHANN MULLER, CHARLES BABBAGE AND EDVARD SCHEUTZ by Michael Lindgren, translated by Craig G. McKay (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990—$45.00, ISBN 0-262-12146-8, 414 pp.) IBM'S 360 AND EARLY 370 SYSTEMS by Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991—$37.50, ISBN 0-262-16123-0, 819 pp.) |
