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Don Knuth's first large-scale program was written for the IBM 650 in 1957 using decimal machine language. Stanford University, MIT, and Case Tech were early recipients of this machine. It had a memory of 2,000 ten-digit words, and debugging involved manually stepping through instructions.

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Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219

Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219

Lex Fridman

Don Knuth's first large-scale program was written for the IBM 650 in 1957 using decimal machine language. Stanford University, MIT, and Case Tech were early recipients of this machine. It had a memory of 2,000 ten-digit words, and debugging involved manually stepping through instructions.