Nikolay Brusentsov was a Soviet computer scientist at Moscow State University who, together with mathematician Sergei Sobolev, built Setun in 1958, a computer that used balanced ternary rather than binary arithmetic, one of only a small number of ternary computers ever built and the most notable to reach production use. In 1970 he designed a successor, Setun 70, whose architecture anticipated design principles later proposed independently for reduced instruction set computing.
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How quickly did the Setun ternary computer go from idea to a working machine?
Roughly two years: begun in 1956 and ready in December 1958.
The Setun project at Moscow State University was initiated in 1956 by the academician Sergei Sobolev, with the aim of a small, inexpensive computer that was simple to use and service. A working specimen was ready in December 1958, about two years after the start, even though the designers were very young and the group was small. One museum account says it worked correctly at once, without even debugging, and began to execute existing programs.
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Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Брусенцо́в; 7 February 1925 in Kamianske, Ukrainian SSR - 4 December 2014) was a computer scientist, most famous for having built a (balanced) ternary computer, Setun, together with Sergei Sobolev in 1958.
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