{"id":12003,"date":"2022-10-06T00:12:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T06:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=12003"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T00:28:15","slug":"quiz-general-purpose-computer-or-not-a-general-purpose-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=12003","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: General-Purpose-Computer or Not-a-General-Purpose-Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ENIAC was a computer built in 1946. Unlike modern computers, this machine was externally programmed; its circuitry had to be manually rewired each time it was used to perform a new task. See Gemignani, Legal Protection for Computer Software: The View From `79, 7 Rutgers J. Computers, Tech. &amp; L. 269, 270 (1980).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, do you consider ENIAC to have been a &#8220;general purpose computer&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer below the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Supreme Court in <em>Diamond v. Diehr<\/em>, ENIAC was a &#8220;general purpose computer&#8221; &#8212; even though it was manually rewired each time to perform a new task:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>[1] ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, was built in 1946. Unlike modern computers, this machine was externally programmed; its circuitry had to be manually rewired each time it was used to perform a new task. See Gemignani, Legal Protection for Computer Software: The View From `79, 7 Rutgers J. Computers, Tech. &amp; L. 269, 270 (1980). In 1952, a group of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study completed MANIAC I, the first digital computer capable of operating upon stored programs, as opposed to hard-wired circuitry. See Ulam, Computers, 211 Scientific American 203 (1964).<\/p><cite><em>Diamond v. Diehr<\/em>, 450 U.S. 175, 101 S. Ct. 1048, 67 L. Ed. 2d 155 (1981)(footnote 1).<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENIAC was a computer built in 1946. Unlike modern computers, this machine was externally programmed; its circuitry had to be manually rewired each time it was used to perform a new task. See Gemignani, Legal Protection for Computer Software: The View From `79, 7 Rutgers J. Computers, Tech. &amp; L. 269, 270 (1980). So, do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12008,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions\/12008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}