The history of the computing profession
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posted on 2023-05-26, 15:58 authored by Holmes, WNThis essay reviews the history of the computing profession from its beginnings many thousands of years ago, describes the persistent bifurcation between reckoning and accounting, describes also the history of the printing profession, and points out lessons the computing profession might learn from the printing profession.
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ComputerVolume
41Article number
1Number
1Pagination
112, 110-111ISSN
0018-9162Publication status
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