In the footsteps of Colossus: A description of Oedipus

被引：4
作者：
Lavington, Simon [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, England
来源：
IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING | 2006年 / 28卷 / 02期
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D O I：
10.1109/MAHC.2006.34
中图分类号：
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号：
081202 ;
摘要：
A number of cryptanalysis projects were developed in the UK during the postwar years 1945-1955. One of the most significant of these was Oedipus, a special-purpose rapid analytical machine using novel digital storage. Oedipus was developed by GCHQ and the UK companies Elliott and Ferranti. Oedipus contained a large semiconductor associative memory, a magnetic drum with oh-the-fly searching, and a high-speed RAM cache. Its history has only recently been made publicly available.
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