Talk:ILLIAC

Format
This page should probably turn into an index page, as the ILLIAC series of computers is covered in 5 separate pages of information that are more complete and up-to-date than this page.
 * I agree,but the ORDVAC article is not there yet. --Ragib 07:39, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Six years later, and there is an ORDVAC article. Keeping it a summary article makes sense to me. But it needs sources and citations, etc. W Nowicki (talk) 19:13, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

ILLIAC VI and 'Trusted ILLIAC'
Is the ILLIAC VI development activity the same as the development of the 'Trusted ILLIAC' prototype mentioned in the PDF document I added to references recently? User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 14:43, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Can't find anything much on Google that talks about "ILLIAC 6" except for the one Web page that hasn't been updated in 4 years.  Did the project fizzle out? --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The faculty member who was PI is no longer listed in the department, and the site is no longer registered, so we should write in past tense. Could always be revived in the future, if we find a live source. W Nowicki (talk) 19:46, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Categorize ILLIAC as Early Computer ?
Why? ILLIAC is about a series of computers, not a computer. The ILLIAC I and ILLIAC II are both categorized as Early Computers (and both link to ILLIAC). It should be one or the other; either the ILLIAC, or the ILLIAC I & II -- but not all ILLIAC, ILLIAC 1, and ILLIAC 2. Readers are not well served by redundant listings. Thanks 69.106.232.37 05:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, you were removing all categories from the article. Articles need to belong to categories. It is perfectly ok to list a series of computers as early computers. If you have any other categories to suggest, feel free to do so, but do not leave the article without any categories. Thanks. --Ragib 06:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, ILLIAC category is History of computing hardware, ILLIAC 1 & II are in Early Computers category. I think that is all a good fit. Thanks 69.106.232.37 07:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Early History All Messed Up
Hey guys, the early history of the Illiac machines is incorrect. For example, the "First Draft" was not written by a committee at Princeton, the ideas were tested at Princeton in an unnamed machine completed in 1951 (usually just called the IAS computer), and the Johnniac at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica was one of many clones of the IAS computer. The Ordvac and Illiac were among the earliest of the IAS clones. I could go on, but this article needs some serious fixing. Jfgrcar (talk) 16:00, 31 May 2012 (UTC)


 * 12 years later and the article is still chock-full of blatent errors. To start with, the ILLIAC's place in history is confused. The ILLIAC was a clone of the IAS ECP machine. The arcitecture of the IAS machine was laid out in "Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument" (Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann), not the "First Draft Report on EDVAC" as the author seems to think. The Chief Engineer on the IAS ECP was Julian Bigelow. All the IAS decendants were copied from his hardware design, some in tandem with the IAS machine's physical construction, e.g.the ORDVAC. There were around 18 IAS ECP clones built by different groups around the world, all with local flavor (http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2017/11/102693640-05-01-acc.pdf). The ORDVAC was the first of the IAS family to be completed. The ILLIAC was mostly a copy of the ORDVAC, but the ILLIAC and ORDVAC were deliberately not software compatible... and on and on... so bad. 99.42.189.145 (talk) 02:29, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

5 level code
see here for the probably right punch tape code. --Alexander.stohr (talk) 16:45, 11 October 2016 (UTC)