Title :
When Switches Became Programs: Programming Languages and Telecommunications, 1965-1980
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;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2014.64
