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EDSAC 2
EDSAC 2
was an
early computer
, the
successor
to the
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
. It was the
first computer
to have a
microprogrammed
control unit
and a
bit-slice
hardware architecture
.
First calculations were performed on incomplete
machine
in
1957
.
Calculations
about
elliptic curves
performed on EDSAC-2 in the early
1960s
led to the
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
, a
Millennium Prize Problem
,
unsolved
as of
2020
.