DocumentCode
87845
Title
When Switches Became Programs: Programming Languages and Telecommunications, 1965-1980
Author
Paulsen, Gard
Volume
36
Issue
4
fYear
2014
fDate
Oct.-Dec. 2014
Firstpage
38
Lastpage
50
Abstract
Beginning in the mid-1960s, electromechanical telecommunications switches were increasingly replaced by computer-controlled switches. Production and development of this equipment relied on the construction of its software. This software was shaped by practices, ideas, and ideals appropriated from the computer industry and computer science as much as by concerns and constraints of the telecommunications industry itself.
Keywords
telecommunication computing; telecommunication switching; computer industry; computer science; computer-controlled switches; electromechanical telecommunication switches; programming languages; software construction; telecommunications industry; Computer languages; Electrochemical devices; Europe; History; Programming; Software engineering; Chill; International Telecommunication Union; history of computing; history of programming languages; programming of telecommunications equipment; standardization; telecommunications switches;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.2014.64
Filename
6982184
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