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The history of the computing profession

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posted on 2023-05-26, 15:58 authored by Holmes, WN
This 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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Computer

Volume

41

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1

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1

Pagination

112, 110-111

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0018-9162

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