Chapter 4. Physical Design for Decision Support, Warehousing, and OLAP
The concept of using a data storage area to support the calculations of a general-purpose computer date back to the mid-nineteenth century. The year 1837 is not a mistake for the above quotation! The source is a paper titled “On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine” that was published by Charles Babbage in 1837. This paper details the analytical engine, a plan for a mechanical computer. The organization of the analytical engine became the inspiration for the electronic numerical integrator and computer (ENIAC) more than one hundred years later. The ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer, which in turn influenced the organization of computers in ...
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