12 ;;Quote: average order times for the EDSAC was 1.5 ms with multiply at 4.5 ms; the tape reader ran at 50 chars/sec and the teleprinter at 7 chars/sec

13 ;;Quote: in 1955, EDSAC's B-register (index register) made instruction modification obsolete; invented at Manchester University

14 ;;Quote: even though EDSAC code looks like assembly code, the punched code was unintelligible

14 ;;Quote: symbolic instructions on the EDSAC took about the same number of characters as a binary code

14 ;;Quote: EDSAC programs and sub-routines were always kept in symbolic form; allowed interpretation and checking routines

15 ;;Quote: subroutine libraries were mentioned by Babbage, and used with the Harvard Mark 1 and the ENIAC

24 ;;Quote: EDSAC programmers could view one bank of 32 words while the program was running; called "peeping"

25 ;;Quote: the EDSAC accumulator was attached to a loudspeaker; users could detect small changes in rhythm

25 ;;Quote: the EDSAC only used about half of the order codes; an errant program would quickly stop and allow a postmortem dump

25 ;;Quote: the check routine prints a letter for each order and a new line line for each control transfer. This compact trace made it easy to follow the program

26 ;;Quote: EDSAC assembly routines provided symbolic subroutine calls and symbolic labels; neither was used much

29 ;;Quote: EDSAC's floating point interpreter had recursion, an index register. and DO-loops; first recorded use of recursion

29 ;;Quote: although interpretation was slow, I/O ran at the same speed; programs were much easier to code

31 ;;Quote: the EDSAC was the primary source for symbolic assembly systems and the subroutine library

31 ;;Quote: a symbolic code is much easier to use than octal codes

31+;;Quote: Babbage introduced Cambridge to Leibniz's calculus in preference to Newton's calculus

33 ;;Quote: the EDSAC group remained skeptical of programming languages. They preferred symbolic machine code, a subroutine library, and powerful diagnostics