ORDVAC was an early computer built by the University of Illinois for the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, intended to perform ballistic trajectory calculations for the United States military as a successor to ENIAC. Based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann, which came to be known as the von Neumann architecture, ORDVAC was the first computer to have a compiler and passed its acceptance tests on March 6, 1952.
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Wikimedia FoundationLead paragraph, acceptance-test date sentence
ORDVAC passed its acceptance tests on March 6, 1952, at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
Lead paragraph, sentence on ORDVAC's compiler
The ORDVAC was the first computer to have a compiler.
In Field: Computer Architecture, Lead sentence
ORDVAC (Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), is an early computer built by the University of Illinois for the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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- Wikidata Q2917691, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- In Group: IAS Machine-Derived Computers, Attested IAS-machine derivative (ORDVAC); named in Wikipedia's IAS machine article's IAS machine derivatives section.
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